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Chapter 9: Green and Blue
Two weeks have passed since the incident at the docks and the first meeting between the Heavenly Dragons. Ever since then, Ruby has pushed herself to the limit in whatever opportunity she can get to train. That meant that she had to master one aspect of the Boosted Gear in order to face her rival: Juggernaut Drive. She was having no luck in ridding the anger of the previous hosts of the Boosted Gear, but Ruby did have a theory to get past the costs of her Juggernaut Drive. Instead of using her life force, Ruby was trying to find away to implement her senjutsu to use that as an alternative source for the form. To her joy, Ruby had small success in that area, but she would need to go the Dimensional Gap to properly test it. At least if it fails, Great Red would snap her out of the form and refill her life force.
On a side of bad news, her growth spurt has come up on the last week of the semester as well. She hadn't realized until the first day of the second semester Ruby had already grown to a height of 5'11", making her taller than even Yang, and she was had grown to an E-cup. Luckily for her, Ruby's body suit was highly elastic for this very reason and it was easy using magic that she made herself to expand her fabrics to fit her new size. That didn't stop the jealous glares from her teammates, and even worse she was still so damn hungry.
So it was a surprise to everyone in the cafeteria when Ruby walked into building with a tower of plates almost as tall as the door filled to the brim with all kinds of cuts of meat. The sheer amount of food was more shocking than the fact Ruby had no trouble balancing it as she walked to where her teammates were. The only one not giving Ruby such a shocked was her cousin Yang, who was content with catching grapes thrown from Nora. It wasn't the fact she knew of Ruby's appetite in her growth spurt, but she was the one to call the butcher shop for the order of meats, with Taiyang and Qrow sharing the fund as well. Yet another happy rich butcher, and hopefully a satisfied dragoness.
"What the fuck!?" Weiss exclaimed, forgetting her proper manners as she watched Ruby chow down faster than humanly possible. She swiped at plates so fast the tower wasn't even disturbed. In the next five seconds, she already had a clean plate and threw it perfectly on the growing tower to her left. All eyes in the meal hall watched Ruby with amazement, shock, or disgust. Nora was unique in the fact she was cheering Ruby on while holding flags that said, "GO RUBY!", on them.
Somehow, no matter how much she devoured down her gullet, Ruby wasn't even showing signs of a full stomach. In less than ten minutes, Ruby was halfway through the tower and didn't look fast.
'Where does it all fucking go?!' Weiss screamed mentally.
As the Schnee tried to figure out the bizarre creature that is her partner, her eyes traveled down to Ruby's chest area. Her eyes twitched in irritation at the fact Ruby grew a cup since her growth spurt. Then she looked at the flatlands that was her own bust. Her mystery of the location of all that could answered itself as Weiss glared at Ruby's bust. She wasn't the only female as well as those like Coco were glaring as well.
What made it worse was the fact Ruby was having zero table manners, which subjected Weiss to the horrible sounds of chewing. She stood up from her table to go somewhere else until Nora threw a pie in her face. All Weiss saw was red, and she grabbed a fistful of food to attack, thus starting a food fight. Or she would have if Ruby's hand didn't snap to grab Weiss. Weiss shivered under the cold green slits of Ruby's eyes going into her skull.
"Weiss," Hissed Ruby, "I am too fucking hungry for this shit. Now you sit back down and clean yourself up. You start something in here and I will make you regret it."
"Yes, ma'am." Weiss squeaked before she dashed off to get away from her leader about to explode.
Ruby continued gorging on the food, ignoring the outside world. She was woke up this morning so hungry, it was like that time she ate an entire cow farm in Patch. Even as she ate, her stomach still rumbled for more and that in turn made her irritated. Rarely anything beats the wrath of a hungry dragon.
That was why Ruby was totally clueless to the presence that was approaching. The young man was unlike anyone in the room for he had an aura of superiority. Even as he watched the devour of the tower of food, he was merely calm. Soon, he caught wide eyes from the people around him as he approached Ruby, and since of them were giving him silent warning signs. At the point he was two feet from Ruby, he was proclaimed a dead man.
Instead of saying anything, the stranger chose to tap Ruby's neck, but unknown to everyone sending off a bit of magic in it for added effect. The effect being snapping Ruby out of her trance with her first instinct to punch whoever interrupted her.
Ruby's first definitely felt her fist hit something. But rather have the guy flying, Ruby's fist was successfully caught to everyone's shock. The force in her punch had no direction and took itself out by cratering the ground at Ruby's feet in a large radius. Even some of the windows cracked.
The whole hall went silent at the fact someone managed to grab Ruby's punch without a sweat. Her eyes blinked in surprise and she looked up to the face of the stranger. As soon as meral green met sapphire blue, Ruby fully knew who was standing right in front of her.
"So this is who you are, Red One." Spoke the White Dragon Emperor.
Ruby can safely say as she fully looked him over that he was not what she was expecting. He looked close to her own age, possibly 17. His skin was slightly tanned to give it a healthy shade. The top of his head was covered in a spiky mess of silver hair, a trademark look of the Lucifer clan.
But then there were his eyes. They were like a sapphires lit by a fire and contained slits much like her own. Ruby didn't know why, but she felt herself drift off the more she stared into her rival's eyes.
As for his total physique, Ruby was slightly surprised that he was taller than her, standing at almost 6'2", possibly due to his dragon biology. Speaking of, something resonated within Ruby as she took in her rival's scent and aura. It felt like a part of her was calling out to her rival, for what Ruby had no idea. Yet, it made Ruby feel so good for some reason, and it took all of her willpower to not let out a suggestive purr.
Her rival was lean yet muscular, an aspect that made Yang stare at the silver-haired teen with a bit of drool. He wore a black leather jacket over a grey shirt that was slightly strained by his pectorals. He wore black pants with a chain looping on his left thigh, and he wore black boosts with buckles.
Ruby was expecting a lot from her rival, but it went over her head to ever think that he would be this...
BUMP BUMP!
The dragoness' eyes widened at her sudden increased heart rate. She tried to push it down, but it was like the more she breathed in her rival's scent, his draconic scent, her heart went up a beat. Was it his doing!?
Ruby's face etched into a snarl. "White One..."
"Vali." The White Dragon Emperor interjected with a smirk. "Vali Lucifer."
BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP!
His voice alone made Ruby pause and her frustration simply froze over. She tried to bring it back, only to make a strained expression and a small blush appeared on her cheeks.
'What - the fuck?!' Ruby thought. 'By Great Red, his voice is so smooth. Why the fuck do I think his voice is so smooth?!'
"Well, can I get your name as well, Empress?" Vali asked, and the use of the title of Empress for some reason made the blush on Ruby's cheeks.
Yet, Ruby refused to turn into jelly. Not when her equal was standing right in front of her. Her dragon instincts were roaring for Ruby to fight this challenger, but unlike last time it was holding a different message. The dragon within Ruby wanted to fight Vali to prove his strength. The Red Dragon Empress forced down the roars of her dragon instincts, her green eyes bearing into Vali's blue eyes with unbroken steel in them. She will not back down.
"Ruby." The Empress greeted. "Ruby Rose."
"Ruby Rose, huh?" Vali said with a bit of a chuckle. "It's a fitting name, don't you think?"
Ruby narrowed her eyes. "Yes. Though I did not expect the descendant of Lucifer to wear so much white."
"That isn't what I meant." Vali said, leaning just a little closer and sniffing the air around Ruby. "You... smell like red. Roses and strawberries."
BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP!
'What the fuck is wrong with my heart!?' Ruby screamed mentally. 'Ddraig, help me!'
[...]
'Ddraig?'
[...]
'What the fuck, Ddraig!?'
All Ruby could do on the outside world was breathe deeply in hopes to calm down her racing heart. The scene between Ruby and the new guy known as Vali caught the eyes of the cafeteria. Some gave quizzical looks at their resident Branwen acting other than her terrifying self and not beating Vali into the ground. But there were the more insightful individuals such as Yang who had to cover their mouths to hide the smirks and hold in their laughter. Ruby Rose-Branwen, arguably the scariest person in all of Beacon, was getting flustered for the first time in her life. Yang couldn't take it and was silently recording the scene to document this momentous occasion, paying extra attention to her cousin's scarlet cheeks.
"... T-Th-Thanks." Ruby forced out, the word itself feeling like bile when directed towards Vali. Wait, why was she thanking her rival in the first place?
Vali smiled, showing his own array of dragon-like teeth. Ruby didn't know why, but she had this urge to just run her tongue over every- she immediately crushed that 'weird' thought before it went too far. For now, all Ruby could do was look at Vali, trying to keep her gaze solid and intimidating as dragons should be. Seconds felt like hours without the Dragon of Domination saying a single word.
'Say something, you damn idiot.' Ruby berated herself.
"S-S-So, uh," Ruby (did not) stutter, "wh-where are you staying?"
'Why are you asking that!?' Ruby mentally screamed.
Despite Ruby's internal plight, Vali answered. "My team had decided to occupy the guest dorms of... Beacon academy. We've traveled a long way to get here so we could participate in the Vytal Tournament. I just came over here to get a feel of the atmosphere. I have to say it is much more... welcoming than from where I'm from."
"Well, I-I hope you have a nice stay." Ruby said with a strained smile. "What is your team's name?"
"It was a hard decision to make, but we managed to settle on KABL." Vali said. "I assume you're part of one as well, right Ruby?"
Ruby nodded, gaining just a bit more of her composure. "That is correct. I am the leader of Team RWBY."
"What a coincidence." Vali replied. "I am a leader as well."
Another long silence descended between the two. Feeling out of her element, Ruby resorted to releasing some of her power as an intimidation tactic. Her eyes glowed a bright green and silver slit pupils glared as a threat. In response, Vali released his own power. Unlike Ruby's, the dragon aura wasn't as pure but it made up for the dense dark power of his Lucifer heritage enhanced as a Super Devil himself. Ruby had the inclination to widen her eyes that Vali was able to match her like this in pure aura of power. To the spectators, it looked like Ruby and Vali were surrounded by brightest and most dense Aura anyone has ever seen, red for Ruby and black for Vali. She was at first shocked, yet Ruby could not help but feel so engrossed Vali's aura. It was so strong and yet her heart was hammering against her chest threatening to pop out.
Ruby knows many things, but at heart she is still ignorant to some the more intimate aspects of life. Her dragon instincts were in turmoil for all this time surrounded by weaklings that would never be worthy. They screamed to rid the weak, and it was only Ruby's upbringing as a human that stopped them. But now there stood someone more worthy than there will ever be. Ruby's inner dragon could not help it for finally there was someone strong enough. They didn't just cry out to test Vali's strength; her instincts needed this strong one. Ruby mistakes her need to battle Vali as an intense excitement, but it's more accurate to call it arousal.
Ruby may be Ddraig's reincarnation of power, but she was a dragon in her own right. And that dragon wanted, needed, Vali as a mate. But she didn't know that. Not yet at least.
"It's been a pleasure meeting with you, Ruby." Vali concluded and that's when he took his leave.
Ruby locked his eyes on Vali the entire time he left. By the time the doors closed behind him, Ruby felt her breathing and heart rate calm down. Yet, her heart also felt pained to see him leave. Why was her heart feeling this way all of a sudden?
With a heavy sigh, Ruby basically collapsed back into her seat. In the rush of her emotions, she had lost her entire appetite and left her with only a dozen plates of meats left from her massacre. The cafeteria went back to its normal routine, but not for the dragoness. For the first time, Ruby felt truly lost confused and lost on what to do.
"What just happened?" Ruby thought out loud.
In response to her question, Ruby heard snickers and her eyes glared on her cousin Yang. It did not take genius to figure out that the blonde knew exactly what was going on with Ruby. The dragoness barred her teeth in irritation, but that did not deter Yang's amusement.
"What's so funny, Yang?" Ruby growled.
"He-he-he." Snickered Yang. "Nothing. Just it's hilarious how you have no clue what's going on. I can blame anyway since that guy was the hunk of hunks."
"And you apparently do." Ruby stated. "Care to enlighten me?"
"I don't know~." Yang said in a sing-song tone. "Are you sure you want to know?"
"Yes." Ruby hissed.
"Promise you won't punch me?" Yang said.
"...Fine." Ruby agreed.
Yang's amused smirk grew to a wicked a grin. She sauntered closer to her closer to Ruby till they were face-to-face. Her chin rested in the palm of her hands with her elbows on the table.
"Ruby Rose," Yang announced, "you are in L-O-V-E... love~."
Complete silence reigned on the whole table at Yang's claim. Friends and strangers alike looked to the blonde like she was suicidal, but Yang only had her shit-eating grin. Ruby's brain went off like a fried mess unable to compute. It rebooted only to shut off again as the words repeated through her head like a never-ending chorus. But slowly, ever slowly through multiple trials, the words finally processed through her mind and the effect was instant. Her lips were etched into a silent scream, and her whole face went as red as her Scale Mail.
'I'm... in love?!' Thought Ruby. 'In love? In love? In love. In love. In love, in love, in love, in love, in love, in love, in love. Inloveinlonveinloveinlove... WITH MY FUCKING RIVAL!? WITH VALI!?'
Her mind absolutely loathed of the very concept of such a thing. She just met her rival. Sure, yeah he was leagues in looks compared to humans, Ruby can agree with that. And he was so powerful it made her warm in the right places she didn't even know about. The more Ruby thought about Vali, her mind was in a storm of fury, but her heart was a different story as it hammered again in her chest the more he thoughts about him.
BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP! BUMP BUMP!
One of Ruby's hands trailed over her sternum in some vain attempt to stop it. Her green eyes settled on Yang, who was struggling to laugh to the point she was banging her fist on the table making it crack. Ruby's right hand clenched into a fist. She needed something to vent all this out, and who better than Yang? In a red blur, Ruby was in front of Yang with a fist cocked back below.
BAM!
"WORTH IIIIT!" Yang screamed as she was sent flying through the ceiling of the cafeteria from Ruby's uppercut.
Yet, it did nothing to quell Ruby's current state. For once, punching something did not fix the current problem. Left with no choice, Ruby dashed out of the mess hall at the peak of her Semblance that sent a sonic boom just from her speed alone. She needed to be alone, to sort these things out. If only she knew that she wasn't exactly alone in her turmoil.
(With Vali)
'What the hell was that?!'
Those were the thoughts running through the strongest White Dragon Emperor, who was currently right outside his team's assigned dorm room leaning against the wall. His breath was a bit ragged but not through exhaustion, and his fingers were digging into the wall. He just had to get away.
After his team had settled into the dorm room as a cover for their observation mission, Vali had went to the mess hall to find his rival. He just could practically feel that his rival was here as she didn't bother to hide her presence. But when he entered the mess hall, Vali wasn't expecting for his nose to be hit with the strongest, sweetest smell, one that Vali found himself fond of for some odd reason. It wasn't some artificial odor, yet it permeated the air. None of the humans or these so-called 'Faunus' that Kuroka theorized were some kind of pseudo-Yokai were even aware of the smell, so it was a likely conclusion it was supernatural in origin. Vali had tracked the scent, getting stronger as it did, the source that he knew was his rival by the dragon aura she was letting out and the fact she had a tower of food she was devouring. The Lucifer didn't really mind since being half-dragon via his dragon heart Vali had his own explosive growth spurts that made him famed in Valhalla for beating every food contest. That certainly made his foster father, Odin, proud.
Vali decided to greet the woman he was destined to fight, if only to see the face of her. When he tapped her shoulder to get her attention, Vali expected many things from his rival. But when blue met green, Vali's mind went blank for the first time.
BUMP BUMP!
He has met many beautiful woman before due to his the perverted antics of his father and Azazel, and had made a sort of resistance to it. But when he saw her, it was like those mental barriers were crumbling away by Great Red himself. Vali didn't know what it was about his rival, but the word 'perfect' was a broken record in his head. Porcelain skin with a rich pink dusting. Waist length spiky black hair tipped crimson. And her eyes. By God (ow), he had never seen such a brilliant hue of silver made into slit pupils encased in a ring of emerald fire.
Not to mention a nice behind, but Vali would gladly die by his own grandfather than ever let that little tidbit be known. Even worse if Azazel or Odin hear of his secret fetish. He is not some damn perverted fool!
In the DxD universe, a brown-haired teenager sneezed, alerting the Kendo girls that he was spying on as they changed into the locker rooms.
That's when problems arose in the form of his inner dragon. Even half-dragon, Vali possessed the same instincts as the living embodiments of nature and chaos, and possessed his own dragon and semi-dragon form. As such, he was unprepared for those very instincts that he ruthlessly kept down to erupt passed his mental barriers when he basked in his rival's aura. It got even worse when he heard her voice more pure than the chorus of the Valkyries. Then her name, Ruby Rose.
BUMP BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
Her entire being was based around red itself. She was the Red Dragon Empress, she wore a red cloak, and she even smelled of red itself. Ruby practically reeked, in a good way, of roses and strawberries, and his inner dragon was roaring in absolute joy. So the entire time, it took all his willpower to put on his usual face and not make a stutter by accident.
But the more he stayed with Ruby, the more his dragon instincts were getting out of control. He didn't mean to even answer where he was living nor that he had a team with him as well. Why? Why did he tell Ruby all those thing?
'Albion, what the hell was that?!' Vali shouted mentally.
[...]
Much like Ruby, Vali was given the silent treatment by his partner.
'Answer, dammit.' Vali shouted.
Vali only received silence instead of the comforting words of his eternal partner. The Super Devil/dragon hybrid could only sigh in frustration and bang his head on the wall. That was a cue for Bikou, Vali's closest friend. Bikou is a monkey Yokai, and the ancestor of the hero Sun Wukong. He, of course, was in his human form that had a pointed nose, lean face, and short brown hair. He wore red ancient Chinese armor and a golden staff sheathed on his back.
As soon as Bikou saw Vali, the Yokai raised an eyebrow. "Vali-kun, you okay?"
"I'm fine." Vali brushed off.
"'Fine' as in the most uncomfortable I've ever seen you've been." Bikou said. "You can't hide much from me, Vali. Seriously, what happened to you?"
"I... met with the Red Dragon Empress." Vali revealed.
A ghost of a smirk was present on Bikou's face. "Yeah, I heard that the new Dragon of Domination was a woman. A woman with more balls to storm the court of the Underworld and get out alive. What else happened? Details, Vali-kun, details!"
"She was... something else." Vali trailed off, unable to put in the right word that came to his mind automatically.
BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP!
'Perfect.'
Ruby was undeniably like no other woman Vali had ever met, and that was on just a glance. Yet from that glance he could feel the draconic power rolling off of Ruby, and it made him excited to know there was so much that was stored within her. So was that why his heart was hammering in his chest because of excitement at fighting a strong opponent? Good God (ow), this was confusing as shit.
Unfortunately for Vali, Bikou's Yokai enhanced senses could hear his friend's increased heart rate at the mention of the Red Dragon Empress. Glancing closer at his friend, Bikou let his jaw drop seeing just a little bit of red in Vali's cheeks. The puzzle fit together in the Yokai's mind. Like that, the dam broke for the quirky Yokai as a shit-eating grin spread across his face and his clutched his stomach.
"He-he-he-he-he. Ha-ha-ha-ha." Laughed Bikou, his laughter growing as he leaned against the wall for support. "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha. HA-HA-HA-HA. No I can't - HA-HA-HA-HA - I can't breathe. HA-HA-HA-HA!"
In less than a minute, Vali found Bikou laughing his ass off with one hand clutching his stomach and the other banging on the door. That brought the attention of the rest of Team KABL. First out of the dorm was the only girl on the team. A beautiful Nekoshou by the name of Kuroka wearing a black yukata. She had a heart-shaped face with supple lips and big amber eyes. Two cat ears were set on top of her head, but she was also hiding two cat tails. The last member was a blonde male by the name of Arthur Pendragon wearing spectacles with two swords sheathed at his hip, being Excalibur Ruler and Caliburn.
"What the heck is so funny?" Vali questioned with an eye twitch.
"Bikou-kun, what's gotten you into such a fit of giggles?" Kuroka asked. Arthur just stood silent.
"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA - I can't believe it!" Laughed Bikou. "A girl did it. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! A girl managed to make Vali flustered! HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
"I fail to see the point in this." Arthur commented.
Vali and Kuroka were silent. The former was just staring at his friend incredulously unable to make a retort. Kuroka however was catatonic. Why one may ask? Because she had done everything to get Vali to notice her more than just a friend. She's flirted, proposed, and even sneaked into his bed naked. Not once! Not once did he ever get flustered at her moves and just pushed her away. But now, she hears that somehow, this woman managed to get behind Vali's walls and make him blush.
Her reaction was fully expected as it fully processed through her mind. "WHAT THE FUCK!?"
Ah, what a nice chapter. No fight scenes. Just some swearing and hormonal confusion between two dragons. What a fun chapter indeed. Neither Vali or Ruby were expecting this, and this will completely throw them off their A-game. These months leading to the Vytal Festival will be used to build up the pair of dragons' relationship as they try to sort it these out. At the same time, more of the supernatural world will be making visits to Remnant, whether they be good or bad.
Up next is Chapter 10.
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