Chapter 57

Ruby had a hell of a fun time trying out the test weapons she had prepared. Admittedly, they weren't anything too complicated and just basic weapons based on the weapons everyone around in the group used, sans yourself of course, but she had fun regardless.

The squeal of excitement she made when she had you conjure up a pillar of crystal to hack and smash at with the weapons actually made your ears ring when she discovered that the newly enhanced weapons could even bite into its absurd durability an with the dust forged folding that went into the weapons, they were no worse for wear.

Even more so when found out that using the weapons lined with your crystal for dust casting, amplified the effects of the dust.

You actually honestly needed to look into that. You'd noticed, that you were actually able to infuse your crystals with elemental powers that you had access to. As in, you could more or less create dust crystals for the Earth, Fire and Lightning elements. You'd discovered it over the last week of training, but had mostly kept it to yourself for now, considering how much of a crazy ability it was. It was something that could quite literally tip the dust economy, especially the stronger you got.

Once she was done testing them out, and made sure you loved your gift, the silver eyed girl pressed a fond kiss to your mask before rushing off into her forging room to get started on finally upgrading her own Crescent Rose with the 'Cobalt Crystal' as she'd named the material of your crystals.

So you left Ruby behind to o her thing and made to make your way back into the house. You wanted to really try out your new scroll that ruby gifted to you.

As you made your way inside though, you caught sight of a familiar figure in the veranda. A voluptuous, scantily clad blonde wearing nothing but a tight orange work out uniform that left absolutely nothing to the imagination, staring out over the entirety of the city of Mistral, a melancholy look on her face.

As much as you weren't a fan of Xiao Long. You had to admit she had one dynamite body, just like that milf of a mother of hers.

You were about to continue on when your eyes settled on her face once more, and even with you actively suppressing your ability to feel human emotions, you could feel the depression and sadness literally wafting off of her.

Ugh, you really didn't want to feel sorry for the girl at all. She'd always rubbed you the wrong way. Like, boo hoo she lost an arm, but she didn't see you whining about dying did she and becoming a grimm?

But on the other hand. She's Ruby's sister, and...Ruby has been really good to you. And you really like her, and it would make Ruby sad if she saw the big sister she cared so much about looking so depressed right?

....

Ugh fine, may as well go talk to her a bit. 'But I'm only doing this because she has nice tits!' you consoled yourself.

'Gracious as always I see.' Pyrrha's dry voice echoed in your head.

'What can I say, I'm a giver.' you responded with pride and felt the dry amusement she had at your reply before you felt her receding again.

You hopped up onto the railing and casually walked along it, before burling around and curling up on it. Not unlike a cat. As annoying as it was not having your legendary woman taming penis, there were some cool benefits to your new body beyond your absurd new abilities.

"Bit early for you to be up and about isn't it blondie?" you asked.

She jerked a bit at your voice, and you felt a spike of fear go through her, her remaining arm clasping onto her yellow prosthetic. Well, that was odd.

"Oh..it's just you Stone." she calmed after a moment, "What'ya want? I'm not really in the mood to talk kid." Xiao Long added, voice morose.

"I could just be here to admire the view," you pointed out with a fang filled grin, "Much as I'm not that fond of you Xiao Long, I won't ever deny you aren't a real hot piece of ass."

She narrowed her eyes at your words, "You're as suave as ever Stone," she rolled her eyes, "It's no wonder P-money couldn't help but hang off your arm after the dance...oh wait, from what I heard, she was avoiding you wasn't she?"

"Oooh, Goldilocks has claws, meow." you lifted one of your paws up mockingly. After all, it was hard to be pissed about her reply, when you could literally feel the pride rushing through her and the brief moment of feeling pleased she had. As much of a pain as your ability to sense emotions is most of the time, it does come in handy.

She eyed you for a moment, and you could feel the fire in her, eagerness to verbally spar with you, before it was doused once again by melancholy and she slumped lightly, "..Seriously, what is it you want Stone?" she asked again.

God, how annoying. You'd take the strutting bimbo she played back at Beacon Academy, swinging her ass back and forth as a real tease over this. "I want a lot of things Xiao Long, like my human body back for instance. That's gonna take a while though. I could do with all the weak idiots of the world growing a pair and stop whining at every god damn little thing as well, it's a pain in the ass, so much so that I need to consciously suppress one of my powers," you mused, before standing up on all fours and hopping off the railing, slowly making your ways towards the bodacious blonde, "But honestly? This isn't at all about what I want, not really anyway."

"Uh-hu, and what's it about then?" she crossed her arms under her chest, pushing up her massive breasts, rolling her eyes, "Enlighten me, oh amazing Grimm Boy that everyone seems to think has all the answers."

"Right now, this is about you Xiao Long," you stopped in front of her, staring right up into her eyes, and even being ever so gracious to ignore her giant tits that were like her only redeeming quality, "I can literally feel the depression wafting off of you. I wouldn't really care if it was just about you though. But the thing is, Ruby will get all sad when she finds you like this, and I like Ruby, I don't want her to get all sad and depressed, I like her the way she is. So tell me Tits McGee, what crawled up that sweet ass of yours and turned you from bimbo to whiny cunt?"

For a moment, she didn't say anything at you, lilac eyes just staring wide eyed down at you. At first, you could only feel shock going through her at you sheer audacity, but then there was a bottom layer bubbling underneath that. And while it took a few seconds, it frothed and roiled, and then finally erupted like a volcano.

Rage. Terror. Sadness. Guilt.

"You wanna know that's wrong with me Stone!?" she thundered, jumping to her feet, both fists clenched tightly as her eyes boiled into a crimson red, "I got my freaking arm cut off trying to save my partner! That Adam guy beat me like I was nothing! I can't sleep without seeing him coming after me, I'm afraid constantly and I can't make it stop! On top of that, my partner ran off and abandoned me! The girl I lost my arm for! My mother abandoned me to run off and lead a trashy bandit tribe and doesn't give a shit about me! All she cares about is this Salem nonsense and Ozpin! Oh and let's not forget that either! All I wanted was to go on exciting adventures and help people along the way! But now I'm caught up in some fucking apocalypse bullshit! And I can't leave because my little sister wants to stick around and help everyone! And on top of all that, everybody thinks we're all fine and dandy, just because you're here! Mister Super Grimm boy! You're so cool aren't you Cobalt? Got in to Beacon a year early, and you could kick everybody's ass, you're so awesome aren't you!? You wanna know why I'm not going all boo hoo that you died? Because you clearly don't give a shit that you did and are living it up with all these new special powers, and it's not like you're gonna be stuck like that forever, you'll be back to your human self in what, a few months? Stronger than ever even! Unlike you, I'm not so special that Ozpin wants to give me like a fucking semblance just to sneak you into the city! Unlike you I don't have any special powers beyond my semblance! My arm isn't coming back! And I'm so weak I'm constantly jumping at shadows and see that fuck Adam coming for me! Tell me you flirty little piece of shit, why is it you seem to think that you're worse off than me when according to everybody else the sun shines out of your nonexistent COCK!"

As her massive, massive tirade broke off, the red faded from her eyes, turning back to lilac and the blonde panted deeply, tears budding in the corner of her eyes, her rising volcano of emotions burning out into flickering embers.

She slumped down onto her backside and looked down at you, "...What am I supposed to do Grimm boy? You've got all the answers don't you? So tell me what to do to make everything better."

Your eyes were so wide they felt like they could pop right out of their sockets and your mouth hung low, agape in utter shock.

...You were not expecting that at all.