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Sex with Weiss and Ruby was awesome. Almost awesome enough to make me forget how much of a son of a bitch I was. Almost but not quite. No marks against them or their warm bodies. It was just hard for me to forget.

The sex was good was the point. Warm and wet and with our auras flaring and mixing in this wonderful stew. Weiss's creaminess. Ruby's sugar. And however my aura tasted. All stirred together as we ebbed and flowed into each other and made the others sigh in contentedness.

Weiss approached things nervous at first but her thirst came through and soon she was all over Ruby and I. We both made Ruby give her little whines. And together Ruby and I made Weiss gasp with her lips parted in something like she was surprised at how it could feel. They both made me groan. A deep noise I wasn't sure would mean much but that they were both hungry to hear more of.

We explored one another thoroughly. I found the little places that made the girls writhe.

I just couldn't forget even as I made love to them who and what I was. That sucked. It was carried with me regardless how good the release felt.

I layed in bed with a girl on each of my arms. Ruby snuggled in close to me and curled up in the crook of my arm, her head using my chest as a pillow. Her hair hung over her face as she slept with both of her arms up near her head as she curled in tight.

Weiss stretched out on the other arm away from me a little like the heat was just a little too much for her to sleep comfortably in if she came any closer but she still wanted to be in contact with me. Her lips were parted in a silent gasp as she lay in just her underwear beside me. She was beautiful. They both were. Like little angels in humanoid bodies.

They were like nothing else on the planet to me at that moment.

I reached over with one hand and ran it through Weiss's beautiful platinum locks. She moaned a little as I did and I just enjoyed the sound she made. I watched her pink lips open as the deep noise left her throat. She shifted a little, looking comfortable.

I slowly sat up, disentangling myself more from Ruby who sighed quietly in her sleep. I was sticky on my chest from sweat and the shower beckoned to me. I was in just a pair of shorts as I crossed over and left the two of them on the king sized bed.

I checked a clock by the bed. It's digital face told me it was about four. I slept a solid six hours, then. Not so bad, for me at least.

Ruby shifted over and found a new body to cuddle up against while she slept in the form of Weiss. She wouldn't miss me while I showered.

I watched them hold one another close in my absence for a long long moment. I breathed the sight of the two women in love holding one another. It was stunning to watch. Ruby wrapped her arms close around Weiss who shifted into a more comfortable position with Weiss's arm underneath Ruby.

It was gorgeous. And they both loved me too. I had evidence now in the form of the wet and warmth that had been wrapped tight around me. That was just as breathtaking as the sight of them. They knew who I was. They knew what I was. And they cared about me anyways. Unbelievable.

I still wasn't sure they totally got it because of that. Maybe if they'd seen the Grimm my father designed they would feel differently.

I slid into the shower and let the quiet pipes run their hot water for a moment while I undressed for the second time that night. I climbed in. I scrubbed myself down in the dull heat and let the water run down over my face.

When I got out of the shower my scroll was buzzing. I wrapped myself with a towel and made my way over to it on the dresser in the hotel room itself. I threw on some pants and stepped out into the hall to not disturb the ladies while I took the call.

"Strife," I murmured.

"It's Aurum. I got a hit on some of your names."

I took a deep breath. "Which ones?"

"Fall, Sustrai, and Black. They're all in town. Not sure where yet but I figured you'd appreciate the heads up."

"I do appreciate it. Let me know when you know more. Fall is the one that got Torchwick killed so she isn't good for your kind of business."

"I'll take your advice on that and keep my head down if she comes by."

"Sounds good. Keep me in the loop. The sooner they're dead the safer literally everyone will be."

"I will roger that, Aurum out," he cut our connection with that.

I twisted my scroll sideways and shot Neo a message.

Cinder's in town according to Aurum. Stay frosty.

I waited a moment and got a response.

Fair enough, Neo.

"Something interesting?" It was Weiss leaning by the door to the room we'd rented out. She breathed back a yawn.

"Criminal contact of mine spotted Fall and her gang. She's in town," I told her honestly. I shut my scroll off at that, closing the screen.

"You're always working, aren't you? Always thinking about something? I understand that. Give it up for a while more, like I am. Just come back to bed for now. Relax with us for just a little longer."

I nodded once agreeably. I stepped back inside with her. She ran her hands through my wet hair for a moment with a smile before she kissed me. Low and tender, her small smirk pressed against my lips. I groaned and she shuddered into it and I wrapped an arm around her. Her white aura flared under my golden one for a moment and I shut the door behind me gently. Ca-thunk.

She twisted from my grasp and took me by the hand. She reclined back on the bed and held her hands out to me with her legs spread apart slightly, her knees up and her invitation obvious. I groaned as parts of me stiffened from the view and implications.

Ruby was stirring slightly beside her with meek mewling sounds as she stretched. Weiss and I wouldn't be waking her up.

I nodded, knelt between Weiss's legs, and kissed her hard. I ground my lower body into hers and she moaned a tight hiccuping gasp.

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"You should do fine against Penny. You won't hurt her, will you? She doesn't have as much aura as you do and most of her robustness comes from her mechanical nature," Weiss murmured to me as the three of us made our way to the Academy training room.

"Penny!" Ruby called out with a wave.

"Ruby!" Penny waved back. "You weren't in your rooms when I came by. Did something happen?"

"Oh it definitely did," Ruby told her in a hushed tone. "We rented out a motel room because the beds here at the academy are too small."

"Ruby!" Penny gasped sounding shocked and aghast. "I want details!" Or maybe not so aghast.

Ruby laughed at that and I cracked a small grin.

"Not too many details, I hope," Weiss murmured.

"Of course not. Just the bare minimum. I live vicariously through Ruby," Penny sang.

"Penny! You don't say things like that. Even if they're true." Ruby informed her, mollified. She dragged her hands across her cheeks downward.

"You already knew that, though. Or at least I thought you did," Penny returned.

"I did but there are principles to the thing, Penny!"

"What do you think, Cloud, Weiss?" Penny wondered.

"Girl talk," I said. "None of my business."

"Of course it's your business," Penny exclaimed. "How could it not be? You and Weiss are most of what we talk about."

"The girl talk is none of my business. Even if I'm the subject of some of it," I informed Penny.

"I never would have pegged Penny as a gossip," Weiss hid her smile behind her hand and gave a pretty giggle. It made me want to kiss her. Instead I just stared at her tiny grin.

"Is that what I am?" Penny asked. She sounded even more shocked.

"It sure sounds like it," I said. I laughed and shook my head. "You can get all the sweet, juicy details when I'm not around after we fight."

"Then I shall. Did you hear that, Ruby? I demand them."

"Her thirst knows no bounds," Weiss giggled. "Ruby and I can probably stick around for a bit but we'll have our own mission today."

"Clearing away Grimm near Mantle," Ruby agreed. "Sorry Penny. We'll have to talk later tonight."

"I can hardly wait!"

I drew the sword and shield from my back. Sliding the shield over and onto my wrist as I took a few practice swings of my longsword.

"General Ironwood says that you might have magic, like the maidens. Is that true?" Penny asked me.

"Maybe. Ozpin and I are still investigating. For now it's just my semblance and what I can do with dust," I answered. I warmed up my wrist a little more.

I'd been trying each day (except this morning, I'd been busy) to turn my needle into a feather but I hadn't had any success with it.

"We shall see if that's enough for you to overcome me," Penny said sagely and slightly somberly.

"Oh please," I told her. "You're mine. All day."

"Play nice," Ruby ordered me.

"If you insist, sweetheart." I told her. She blushed at me as red as her cape.

"If she's sweetheart then what am I?" Weiss asked.

I opened my mouth with a grin.

"If the next words out of your mouth are 'Ice Queen' then your very next words will be 'you punched me in the groin.'"

I closed my mouth still grinning.

"Princess, just because I don't say it…" Weiss did a head fake at me and I jumped back. "No? Didn't like 'princess' either?"

She frowned at me. Then she turned away, turning her nose up at me.

"I'll come up with something," I vowed. "Ruby is easier to give pet names to than you are."

"Maybe if you didn't use princess sarcastically," She said, her nose still turned up away from me. "You ruined it."

I snapped my fingers. "Dang it. So close." I was still smirking as I teased her.

She let out an exasperated sigh but I could tell she was smiling underneath. It was why she wasn't looking at me. She didn't want me to see. It was too late though. I saw everything. I could feel it through her bemused aura. "Gods…" she murmured.

"Is this how you flirt?" Penny asked. "Because I like it. It's cute."

Weiss blushed a little at that and I smiled at Penny.

"Only when she lets me," I told Penny. "Weiss is a tough nut to crack."

Weiss shoved my shoulder but her fingers lingered on my collar. "Flatterer."

"Who would want to be tough?" Ruby asked.

"Who would want to be easy?" Weiss shot back.

"Because it's sweet," Ruby let out. "It's sweet that he's trying. It's sweet when you try, too."

"He had better do more than try."

"Oh stop it. You weren't giving him that when I woke up this morning."

Weiss turned scarlet. "That's different."

"Not that different."

"Ruby!" Weiss hissed.

"What? It's just us girls?"

"And me…" I trailed. Not quite sure how to feel.

"Yeah but you were there for it. Weren't you. And I trust Penny. I tell her basically everything."

"How much is basically everything?" I asked. "Because there are some things that should remain between the three of us girls."

Ruby gave me a flat look. "You're really hung up on that."

"Kinda," I muttered.

"It's just… you know. Girl talk," Ruby defended.

"Penny?" I asked.

"Yes? Cloud?"

"What's the most risque thing Ruby has told you about?" I went on, arms crossed.

Ruby's eyes flashed over to Penny, wide and pleading.

Penny didn't get the memo from Ruby. "We once talked about the size of your-"

"Alright! Alright." Weiss cut in. She was beat red. "The three of you are children."

"I'm four," Penny chirped helpfully.

"Hey, me too." I held out my hand for a high five. She grinned and took it with a satisfying slap.

"I totally forgot about that amongst everything we did last night," Weiss muttered. "I had sex with a four year old."

"And you liked it, too," I teased. Ruby laughed.

"Cloud!" Weiss snapped, she was still flushing.

"What? You're the one who took advantage of me. You're twenty. Be the adult."

"This is so interesting," Penny commented.

"Can you two fight now?" Weiss asked.

"Yeah. Anytime," I said. I blew my girlfriends a kiss.

Ruby mimed catching it and blew one back while Weiss muttered, "grow up." But she was still pink. She made it so easy to tease her. She turned and dragged Ruby by the hand from the arena.

"Are you good to go?" I asked Penny.

"I'm combat ready!" Blades flew from an opening in her back and began to float around her.

I twisted and struck her in the chest with a thunderbolt before she could react. She looked at me surprised and I grinned.

I palmed a gravity crystal and crushed it. I waved a hand with it and the room felt abruptly sideways. She fell to the side of the room, chased by a stack of boxes that made up the terrain. I sliced through the ones that fell at me and flew at her through the sideways room.

She began to hover with her boots emitting flames except she was hovering against the wall instead of the floor. She cut her way through several boxes and I fell through them on top of her as I flew.

She looked up at me in absolute shock as I descended on her shield first. I hit her like a meteor with my shield and slammed her into the new ground which was formerly one of the walls.

She kicked me hard in the chest and my semblance activated. I swung my sword around at her and it was met by two of hers. Several of her own blades hovered near her head and opened fire with a green laser. I back-flipped and dodged the lasers and she swept three blades up at my head. I blocked them by raising my shield.

"You fight very unorthodoxly," she informed me.

I pulled a crystal on her and fired three firebolts at her with a swipe of my hand.

Then I sprinted at her fast enough that my feet left the ground and I began to fly straight at her. She tried to stop me with her blades but I barrelled straight through like a bull.

I swung my sword down on her in a tremendous arc straight for her head. Blue waves ebbed off the attack as I struck with Limit in hand.

She blocked with nine of her own swords. I met her incredible strength for a long moment. Then I started to lower my blade down on her despite her raw power.

She looked at me in surprise as my blade seesawed lower onto her.

"You're not strong enough," I grunted. "You can't keep me out forever."

Three blades flickered from the side into my body and slammed me into the floor of the battlefield from the wall we stood on. I pulled myself to my feet easily. I was mostly unhurt.

I twisted my sword into my shield and drew the broadsword on her. I jumped back into her range. I blocked one flying sword. Then another. Then I front-flipped over a third and ducked beneath a fourth. Then I bladebeamed her, hovering in mid-air and sending the golden wave flowing over to her body and forcing her to sidestep.

I approached her with an enormous backflip.

Gravity reasserted itself over the room as I landed right in front of her and I slashed at her four times. She blocked them all with a combination of blades. Then she waved her hand and a column of blades chased the point of her fingers.

"I disagree," she murmured. "I'm more than strong enough for you."

I jumped and slashed straight at her head. She dived to the side in order to get out of the way. It was too fast for her to bring her blades around to stop.

She flew at me with her boots glowing with small flares of exhaust next.

I flexed to charge Limit as she approached me and I slid my shield back out of my sword. She fired a laser at me. Then another one and I blocked them both with my shield. Then she hit me like a ton of flying bricks on my shield, feet first.

I was man enough to say she hit hard as all hell. Maybe about as hard as I'd ever been hit. Or at least within recent memory. Taurus maybe had an edge with whatever he did with his semblance but that still put her in my top five at least.

I blocked her swords again and slashed at her head underneath my shield to try and riposte.

Then I stepped into her guard where her weapons flowed like a wavy liquid and I started to intercept them. They hammered against my shield but I met them all then I slashed at her body twice horizontally and followed it with a diagonal third.

She blocked with her weapons in front of her. But then I cut straight at her body to try and bring her down. I hit her in the stomach with my sword in a brutal swing.

She bounced hard off the ground and her aura flared over her.

"Your father can repair you when I'm done breaking you, can't he?"

"You won't break me."

"No?" I asked poignantly.

She came at me in a flying fashion. I bowed beneath a beam and dodged a flying blade and let two more bounce off my shield.

Then when she came soaring into my range I clotheslined her hard with my blade. I hit her as hard as I could and she backflipped in near place for an awful moment.

My semblance burned to life in a giant blue flame around my body as I rocked her.

She clanked against the ground and began to rise.

"Are you alright? Need me to take it easier on you?"

"Cinder won't take it easy on me."

"No she won't. But I'm not Cinder. I can take it easier on you so you learn something."

"I need you to fight me like you mean it," she demanded.

"I don't know that you can take it."

"It's what I need from you."

"Fine. Are you ready to start again?"

She nodded and when she barely even finished I hit her in the body again with a lightning bolt. It made her whole body shudder and fall to both her knees.

Then I was on her and I kicked her in the chest with a massive forward kick. It slammed her and sent her skidding across the floor.

Then I hit her with another lightning bolt, crushing a crystal in my palm and setting the energy loose.

Four of her blades flew at me and I slid between them. I could see her aura projected on a screen above us. This would be over soon.

She fired a series of lasers at my head. I ducked one and shielded another and jumped into a floating roll to avoid three more. Then another hit me in the chest but I kept moving through it.

Three blades skewered at me in succession and slammed me into the floor. I kicked my way to my feet. I blocked two blades with my shield and slashed at one of them with my sword. I missed the guide wires and she retracted them quickly. Her weapons weren't safe, that's what that told me.

I flew into her range and cut at her four times in a diagonal fashion followed by two wide horizontal swings. She wasn't a real swordsman. Swordswoman? She wasn't about the sword-play. Not like I was.

I blocked three more of her thrusts while her fourth weapon hovered near her head and fired another green laser at me. I couldn't block all of her weapons and her laser at the same time and tried to back-flip out of the way of the laser but it caught me in the back.

I still had Limit and I acted like it. I flowed at her like water with my extreme speed. I slid on my knees and cut once before thrusting upwards at her. She blocked with a wave of her hand which her weapons mirrored.

She danced up on me with her four remaining blades flying about her. I shielded myself from two of her blades and flipped through the wires of another one. Then I glid right up to her face through a hole in her defenses and I Cross Slashed her point blank.

Her body screeched across the ground where it skid. "Are you alright? Penny?"

"I'm okay. I think I'm out of aura, though."

"Then we're calling it." I sheathed my weapons into each other and strapped them to my back. "For now at least. We'll go again once you recover."

"What did I do wrong?"

"You didn't do anything wrong. I was too much for you. The wires on your weapons are an obvious weakness by the way. A real unscrupulous enemy will capitalize on them. Cinder probably won't cut through them like I tried but she will try and burn you. She might be able to melt them. She likes fire."

"Thank you for showing me. You used electric dust on me."

"I did. Did it hurt you? Because you're a machine?"

"It hurt because it hurt. It's lightning."

"Gotcha."

"Have you fought Cinder? How will she fight?" Penny sat up a little. She looked disappointed in herself.

"I did once. She prefers fire and wind. I almost had her, that once. That was before she became spring, though. She's even more dangerous now."

"You want to kill her."

"I'm going to kill her. She killed Pyrrha. Pyrrha Nikos. My partner, she's the one that killed you that time you died."

"I see." She stumbled over her words for a moment. "Were you and her involved?"

"It was complicated, then she died."

"I see. And Ruby got me back but you didn't get her back."

"No. No I didn't."

"But you're with Ruby and Weiss now. Would you have been with Pyrrha if she hadn't died?"

I flinched at the horrible question, there it was naively out in the open from someone so pure. Would I have? "I...I'm not sure. I'll never be sure. Whatever we had is dead now because of Cinder."

"I think I understand." Penny got to her feet. "Ruby worries about you, you know."

"I know."

"I hate to see her that way," she complained. It was probably fair enough. I hated to see her that way, too.

"I believe you," was all I said. All I could say.

"You don't need to add to it," she protested. Her hair waved back as she turned to look at me.

"Can't help it. Maybe you'll understand one day."

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