Aboard the ship, a lone dark-skinned individual with short light-brunette hair and honey-brown eyes leant firmly upon the wooden railing on the front bow and watched the sun slowly descend towards the ocean and horizon up ahead. While wearing a blue-and-white-striped T-shirt, tight dark-blue denim trousers, boots and gloves of matching khaki, reddish-orange neckerchief, and gold-stud earrings. Silent breaths were taken as a cool sprinkle of breeze brushed through the hair and stroked the skin.
"Hey Matte", a light and familiar feminine voice called from close behind, causing Matte to instantly turn around and see who it would be. A distinct and slightly older girl with ebony hair, black skirt, bright-red hood and cape, and silver eyes.
"Oh, hey Ruby", Matte recognised. "How you doing?"
"Eh, feeling fine I guess", Ruby shrugged as she walked up to the railing next to Matte. "The others have all pretty much decided to get some shut-eye already".
"And you haven't?"
"I went to look for you", Ruby admitted. "Even the Captain himself put the ship on autopilot so he could get some rest as well".
"Of course he has", Matte figured out.
"You don't mind me joining you in watching the sunset, would you?" Ruby asked for permission.
"Not at all", Matte gladly accepted.
With that, Ruby Rose stood closely next to Matte Skye, leaning forth with arms resting on the wooden rail like Matte was as well. The sun already started to sink away into the horizon, the rippling ocean reflecting its blinding and majestic glow, and the sky was filled with an aura of golden-orange. Ruby and Matte passed a few glimpses to each other but kept mostly quiet and to themselves.
"Matte", Ruby spoke up again.
"Yes?"
"I wanna say thank you".
"For letting you on board?" Matte guessed. "Well, you can thank the old Cap for that".
"I know that too, but I mean for giving Blake, Yang, and even Sun a ride earlier before", Ruby specified. "If it weren't for good people like you, we probably wouldn't have been able to reunite any time much sooner".
"Oh, right, oh yeah...", Matte then stood corrected, remembering and recalling almost exactly what had happened. "Blake was pretty brave facing that Sea Feilong". Matte still remembered the intensity and a bit of stress from that situation. "I don't know what else we would be able to do if weren't for Blake and Sun".
"Cause that's what good people do", Ruby smiled. "They help others, risk their lives or at least their conveniences to do what's necessary for others. Stand up and fight so that no innocent person would have to suffer and get hurt". Even Ruby herself was taken a bit of surprise by how she was talking and getting all dramatic and slightly serious. But that all comes with growing up.
"No disagreement there", Matte quickly agreed before lightly giggling with Ruby.
The seriousness was already given way to the light-heartedness of the two smiling and chuckling like most people would. But then even that itself would have to give way as well, as the giggles and chuckles soon faded by and the awkward nearness of silence settled in yet again. Matte gazed at Ruby with just enough detail, slightly tilting to the side by the head.
"Ruby", Matte said.
"Hmm?" Ruby hummed.
"Can I just say how..." Matte took in as big a breath as possible, almost blushing at the sight of Ruby right in front. "...how beautiful you are?" The moment she heard this, Ruby lit up with wide-eyed confusion and amusement, even slightly blushing as well. "Has anyone ever told you something like that before?" Matte questioned.
Ruby shook her head out of daze. "Well uh..." She scratched the back of her head with tensed shoulders and a goofy bare-teethed smile. "...at least no one asked me so as far as I could remember".
"Was there ever anyone you had any feelings for?" Matte questioned further.
"Eh, to be honest, I never really thought too much or too deep about it", Ruby shrugged. "Everyone I know is pretty much with anyone else I may also know". She listed off as much as she could remember. "Winter is with my sister Yang, Blake is with Ilia, Coco is with Velvet, Arslan is with Reece, Elm is with Harriet, and Weiss..."
Her line of thought had slipped aside as she had realised something, something about Weiss, something about her. Of all the friends and people Ruby had spent any remote time with, not just her teammates, Weiss Schnee seemed like the closest she'd ever been with.
"Not with you, I take it?" Matte pondered.
"Seems so..." Ruby sighed. "Or maybe she's not interested in anyone at all. Wouldn't shock me though". She stared down as she lamented, much to Matte's empathy.
"Even after all the time you spent with her?" Matte questioned.
"Uh-huh", Ruby sighed in confirmation along with a nod.
"Sorry to hear about it", Matte sympathised. "I too have felt a little bit lonely inside".
"It's okay", Ruby replied. "Maybe I'll find the right one".
"Maybe the right one you're looking for..." Matte paused. "...is closer than you might expect?"
"Yeah, I guess so", Ruby agreed before quickly putting two and two together. "Wait, are you saying that you-"
"Might have feelings for you?" Matte completed that sentence and question before admitting to said question. "Yes, you could say that".
Ruby could only look with eyes wide and mouth slightly open with silent amusement at such a confession. In turn, Matte gazed back with wide eyes that twinkled in the setting sunlight. The two glanced at each other's faces, their eyes, and eventually their lips. Whether with sound or with silence, something was slowly bringing these young individuals closer together. As if magnetically attached and attracted forth towards one another by the sheer force, fate, and will of the whole universe, Ruby and Matte moved slowly towards each other and finally, as their eyelids closed softly, brought their lips together to touch.
As soft as their lips were already, their kiss was even softer, faintly humming and inhaling sweet salty air through their nostrils. Their lips would only part as to go back in and touch again, this time even deeper. Even Ruby herself never really recalled ever kissing anyone like this before, neither could Matte for that matter. This would be their first time ever.
Swiftly, Matte turned around to lean back against the railing with both gloved hands firmly grasping onto it while Ruby pinned against with one hand of hers holding one of Matte's hands and the other embraced that smooth beautiful neck. Their bodies pressed up against each other, fitting together just perfectly and sharing a deep frictional warmth, and their caressing tongues soon touched and danced intimately with one another.
Their legs straddled each other's thighs, almost grinding together to enhance the warmth being shared between the two lovers as they exchanged hummed moans and warm breaths. Ruby's tongue took over and dominated Matte's tongue before exploring the rest of that delicious mouth. Then, for but a mere snap of a second, the concerning thought of waking up at least someone from sleep and causing bit of a disturbance had been kicked out of the train of thought, at least for Matte.
"Wait", Matte hesitated, pulling back just so slightly. "You think anyone will hear us?"
Ruby took a quick think over it for a bit, giving off that usual familiar little goofy yet still cute look on her face. "Nah, my friends are kinda heavy sleepers anyway".
"Yeah, so is the Captain", Matte agreed.
And with that, the two continued snogging each other tenderly, Ruby's cape gracefully flowing in the calm ocean winds as was Matte's neckerchief. Even as the sea and sky grew cooler and milder with the passing hours of twilight, the lovers' bodies still remained warm and relaxed. Being sandwiched between the railing of the ship and Ruby Rose herself didn't seem to bother Matte, not even half a bit. If anything, it probably want even more as Matte's body was silently yearning for so much more, feeling a tight aching between the thighs, and quietly begging to be touched and pleasured.
Parting their lips and tongues once more, Ruby and Matte glanced down at themselves for a second or two before looking back up at each other eye-to-eye as grins grew in their faces. No words were needed to be said, Matte had already given enough consent for Ruby. And so, with pure swift ease, Ruby unbuttoned and zipped open Matte's trousers then she slipped her right hand inside just as swiftly. From the very moment Ruby dipped her middle and ring fingers into and between those warm, sweet, wet, rosy petals, Matte jerked and buckled while letting out a gasp of aroused air.
Slowly pumping her fingers out and in, out and in, while pressing her thumb against that G-spot, Ruby ran her glazed tongue up and along the skin of Matte's smooth and tanned neck, jaw, and cheek. In turn, the First Mate sharply inhaled in between the teeth before exhaling with a melodic moan, all the while gracefully bucking hips and riding the Huntress' fingers. For the most briefest moment, Ruby herself wondered if something was taking over her, having not been used to this sort of thing, but she soon concluded that it was her who was taking over, she was taking over Matte, and both were getting so into it.
Leaving a lovebite or two on that delicious neck, Ruby soon sped up her fingers within Matte, biting her own lip before suckling her lover's lips as well. Legs tensing up fierce, hands clutching tightly on the rail, torso arching forth, neck arching up, head hanging back, irises shrinking, eyelids fluttering and shutting heavily, and moaning highly, Matte kept on grinding hard against Ruby and those fingers, almost melting into her hand. Countless stars dashed and danced within Matte's warping vision, fiery chills ran up and down that spine.
Waves of pleasure surging through and between their thrusting bodies, but one of them would inching close to the edge. Ruby's huff of breaths grew stronger and heavier while Matte's moans grew higher in pitch and louder in volume, and yet neither were worried in the slightest about the probability of someone waking up and catching the two at this seemingly compromising act. Right now, the rest of the world was nothing to them, it was all about these two lovers, and only these two lovers.
The faster Ruby's fingers went, the shorter Matte's breaths became, continually giving way to greater moans and squirms of pure utter orgasmic pleasure. For months or maybe years, Matte had never once thought that a moment like this would ever come true to fruition. And yet here it was, the strong, brave and noble, and yet kind, sweet and innocent huntress herself Ruby Rose pleasuring this slightly younger yet equally lonely sailor. Matte wasn't only on the edge of the ship, but also on the edge towards that inevitable climax.
Then finally at last, just as the sun had finally sunk away completely into the horizon, with one last high holler to the nightly heavens above and one last thrust of the pelvis, Matte reached that inevitable climax and came forth upon Ruby's stimulating hand and fingers, causing the silver-eyed huntress to smile suggestively with half-lidded eyes. The liquid essence had finally burst free from Matte's tightened walls, only to rest onto Ruby's palm, whose fingers gradually slowed down to an eventual halt, having been satisfied for now at least.
Once her fingers had ceased moving, Ruby carefully pulled them free and closely observed her hand, now coated in freshly expelled fluid. Curious, she went and licked up the essence, her buds being greeted with the taste of sweet saltiness, causing her to let out a giggle. As they gently placed each other's foreheads together, exchanging warm gazes and smiles, the two lovers could only whisper these words and nothing more.
"I... I love you, Ruby".
"And I love you too, Matte".
The End...?
