The next day Alabast woke up with Pyrrha asleep in his arms. He woke up 5 minutes before his alarm would go off, not even enough time to bother going back to sleep. He just moved his arm from around Pyrrha and started running his fingers through her silky hair.
Pyrrha awoke to Alabast holding her hair. She looked over her shoulder and saw his red eye look into hers.
"Morning Ember"
"Good morning Ash. Feeling better than yesterday?" She rolled over to face him. She brought her hand to his face and held his cheek. She moved her thumb along the scar beneath his right eye.
"I told you yesterday that I don't regret doing it. I only regret not doing it sooner" Alabast let's her hair fall and puts his hand atop hers as he closes his eyes.
"But you did it so well. Nobody was permanently injured. And you didn't let your anger control you. If that was the case I think you would have actually broken Cardins legs" She smiles at him and laughs a little.
"Fair enough. And was it really that cool? Or were you guys just poking fun at me?" He asks as he opens his eyes to see Pyrrha's green eyes looking back at him
"It was cool. Normally you are expressionless. It's gotten better lately but still….When you got up and showed Cardin who's 'daddy', you showed emotion. You expressed yourself. And stood up for yourself and the others he was bullying. It would have been scary to be on the receiving end, but it was cool to watch. Especially when you threatened him with the belt and for him to call you 'daddy'. I think Weiss and Yang liked that a little too much by the way"
"I didn't even mean to say that….and everyone is calling me 'Daddy-Faunus' now" He sighs. He takes his hand from her hand and puts it around her back.
"Is that so bad? You're popular now at least?" Pyrrha was thinking of a way to cheer him up.
"Yeah, because I want every student to call me 'daddy'" he sarcastically says.
"So you don't want us to call you daddy?"
"Well, that's a different story" Alabast moves his face into the pillow.
Pyrrha takes her hand from his face and scratches his head. "It'll be forgotten soon enough"
"Yeah. I don't really care if they do. It's just annoying. At least it will make people second guess bullying the Faunus" He says into the pillow and Pyrrha barely heard him.
Alabast rubs Pyrrhas back as she plays with his ears. He's gotten used to his girls playing with them and his tail. He understands why now since he got to touch Blake's cat ears.
The alarm goes off and they get ready for class. This one was an all day class with their cracked out teacher. Professor Oobleck. He's always got a coffee in his hand and his shirt is always untucked on his left side. He's very smart and talks fast. It's just a shame he teaches geography and history. Both subjects Alabast hates.
Professor Oobleck stands tall and his messy green hair flows backwards but doesn't stay flat or straight. It stands up and looks like his hair is always being blown back by a wind that isn't there. He also wears circular lens glasses that are foggy so you can't see his eyes. He moves really fast around the front of his classroom and tries to keep the students interactive. He moves like a blur but never changes his posture, it puzzles Alabast. It must be a speed semblance or whatever is in his coffee.
Team RWBY and ANVL get to his class and see the map of Remnant on the board behind Oobleck. There are tons of papers pinned to the map and there is string connecting various thumbtacks together. It looks like he's trying to catch a serial killer and connect the dots between various cases. Like those detective movies.
Oobleck had given the students random seats so they didn't sit together as a team. Blake and Pyrrha sat together while Alabast sat next to Weiss. Cardin sat right behind Alabast. Ren and Nora sat at the back and had a seat between them. But that guy dropped out the first day so nobody sits there now. The others were randomly spread throughout the room.
Oobleck displayed the topic for the day before class starts to allow the students to get into the mood of using their brains. It's about the Faunus fighting the humans throughout history, and the geography used in the fights.
Just great.
Alabast was at an isle seat. The isle was to his right and Weiss was to his left. To his right he saw the rabbit Faunus girl from the previous day. She was looking at him until he turned towards her and she quickly looked away.
"Are you going after another one?" Weiss asks flatly next to him.
"No. My heart is already full of the five of you" Alabast turns to Weiss. He grabs her hand and holds it beneath the desk. He sees Cardin and co vented the room. They were actually quiet and weren't talking. They just went to their seats. They looked normal, compared to their state after he laid them down to rest the previous day.
Cardin walked past Alabast and sent him a glare. Alabast didn't spare him a glance and preferred to turn his attention to his Princess beside him. "So. How have your nights been?"
"I haven't had any nightmares lately, if that's what your asking. You?" Alabast looks at her pale face.
"Lonely" She says. Not at all trying to be subtle.
"Hmmm. I think I can fix that" He holds her hand tighter.
"And I can also help the bunk bed situation. I should have done something about it sooner" He thinks of the ropes and books that are holding up the top bunks.
"What wrong with them?" Weiss asks.
"Are you asking for a serious answer or was that rhetorical?" He tilts his head.
"Haahhh. Rhetorical" she shakes her head slowly. "I'm also surprised it's held together, or I guess I should say held up for this long. But we did it together and it's surprisingly more sturdy than we expected"
"I'd rather not wait until something breaks to fix it. Can't have you girls getting hurt now can I?" He rubs his thumb across her hand as he holds it.
"You're girls are training to be huntresses. You can't always be there to protect us. And we aren't delicate you know"
Alabast frowns. "I know. I may won't be able to always protect you, but if I have the chance I would do anything. And isn't that why were training? To get stronger, so that even if I'm not there you can protect yourselves? At least long enough for me to arrive right?" He has a small smile at the end.
"That's right" Weiss nods once.
"Oh, and I know you girls aren't delicate, and I won't always treat you like you are. There will be times when I can be pretty…..rough….while handling you girls" He leans in close and whispers into her ear.
Weiss heard him and blushes. She squeezes his hand. She leans away from him and sees him smirking. "Wh-what is that supposed to mean?" Her voice is shaky. She imagines him being rough with them. How strong he is. How large his build is. His muscles and wide shoulders. The look in his red eyes as he stands over her. The feeling of his big hands and his soft lips. His bodies heat. How would he be rough? Her small frame in comparison to his…
"Weiss? Alabast to Weiss, come in Weiss" Alabast seems to have broken Weiss. He did tease her, but he was joking and was going to say. 'Rough in training them, what way were you thinking? My dirty minded Princess'. But she froze and had dreams rising from her head as her pale skin went a shade of crimson.
He tries to bring Weis out of it but she won't respond even Jen he shook her shoulder or squeezed her hand. So he flicked her forehead.
"Ow!" She put her palm over where she was flicked.
"You ok Weiss? You zoned out for a while. I thought I broke you" Alabast looks into her eyes.
"Break me?" Her thoughts went back to what she was thinking previously.
"Ok…you clearly aren't fine" Alabast doesn't exactly know what to do.
"Wha-? No, no. I'm good. Just got a little….distracted" She smiles at Alabast.
"Sure….." Alabast wondered why she was acting so weird. She wouldn't have thought about…..No, she wouldn't have thought about that. Right? But she clearly thought about something like that. "Oh boy" he says.
"What?" Weiss wonders why he said that.
"Nothing, just realized something. Didn't know my Princess would have such a dirty mind is all"Alabast smirks at Weiss.
"I do not!" She loudly whispers.
"You don't need to deny it. I'd rather you be honest. It's more fun that way. Unless you want me to force you to be honest with me…. I can be… quite….persuasive when I want to be" Alabast squeezes her hand hard, but not enough to hurt her.
Weiss swallows her saliva. She's about to talk but the bell rings.
"Saved by the bell…." Alabast says and then turns his attention to professor Oobleck.
Weiss stares at Alabast for a few seconds. Before she shakes her head and pays attention as the professor starts talking.
They let go of their hands below the desk since Weiss needs her right hand to stop the paper from moving while she writes with her left hand.
Alabast found it amusing to watch Weiss write with her left hand. He's right handed and could only use his left hand for combat or small tasks. Yang is right handed. Blake is right handed. Ruby is left handed. Pyrrha is right handed. Nora is right handed. And lastly, Ren is left handed.
Oobleck introduces the topic and gets going.
After 20 minutes of random war facts and dates. Talking about various generals for Humans and Faunus Alabast decides to listen again.
"Yes! Yes, prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution--more popularly known as the Faunus War--". Oobleck zooms up to the front of the class and the map covered in papers behind his desk.
"--humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie." He points at the map of said-area with his stick, then zooms off to the side for a sip of his coffee before appearing in front of the desk.
"Now! While this must feel like ancient history to many of you, it is imperative to remember that these are relatively recent events! Why, the repercussions of the uprising can still be seen to this day!". The guy zooms around the classroom more, sipping his coffee again before continuing to zoom and talk
"Now! Have any among you been subjugated or discriminated because of your Faunus heritage?" He looks at his students and sees mostly Faunus students raise their hands. Alabast raises his hand. He also sees the bunny ear Faunus shyly and hesitantly raise her hand. He looks behind him and sees all the Faunus raise their hand, Weiss also looks back and is reminded of the way Faunus are treated. And how she has treated them.
But there were a few, very few, humans that lowly raised their hands. They either didn't understand what Oobleck meant or they had met a few Faunus who were fed up with humans.
Faunus could discriminate just as much as humans. But most choose not to.
"Dreadful, simply dreadful! Remember, students, it is precisely this kind of ignorance that breeds violence!". Oobleck takes another sip of his coffee.
"I mean, I mean, I mean just look at what happened to White Fang! Now, which one of you young scholars can tell me what many theorize to be the turning point in the third year of the War?"
A hand is raised. And Oobleck looks at the White haired student. "Yes?"
"The battle at Fort Castle" Weiss says proud of herself.
"Precisely! And, who can tell me the advantage the Faunus had over General Lagune's forces?" Oobleck looks around the room.
Unseen by the professor, Cardin flicks a paper football atAlabasts head, causing him to turn around in his seat and stare down Cardin, fully intending on following through on his promise he made the previous day.
Oobleck zooms over into Alabasts desk. "Mr. Noir! Finally contributing to class! This is excellent! Excellent! What is the answer?"
Alabast turns back around and sees Oobleck standing within an arms length. Oobleck has his coffee over Alabast's papers on his desk and is leaning forward. He has an expectant look on his face as he looks at his Wolf Faunus student who normally doesn't answer, even if he knows the answer.
Alabast looks at the glasses of his professor. "Why the Faunus had an advantage? Over that general guy"
Alabast had absolutely no idea who this guy was or what the battle was about. He knew it was The human general battling agains the Faunus but that's it. So he said the most obvious and vague thing he could think of. "Their Faunus traits". His neutral face not changing.
Oobleck sips his coffee then stands back up. "Well. You aren't wrong. But I'm looking for something more specific"
There are a few chuckles and snickers from some of the students at Alabasts answer, mainly Cardin. But Alabast didn't care. Weiss shook her head, but didn't complain since he was technically right.
Oobleck blurs as he goes behind his desk and I front of the map. "Cardin! Perhaps you would care to share your thoughts on the subject!"
Cardin sits back in his seat and crosses his arms as he puts his feet on the desk in front of him. He smiles at the back of Alabast's head. "Well, I know it's a lot easier to train an animal than a soldier."
Oobleck shakes his head and rubs the bridge of his nose.
"You're not the most open-minded of individuals, are you, Cardin?" Pyrrha speaks up as she turns to the idiot, having enough of his comments. She wishes she could have battled team CRDL as well.
Cardin turns to her. "What? You got a problem?"
Pyrrha turns back to the front of the classroom. "No, I have the answer! It's night vision. Many Faunus are known to have nearly-perfect sight in the dark."
Cardin growls at the correct response. He lets his arms rest at his sides and looks back at the front as well.
"General Lagune was inexperienced, and made the mistake of trying to ambush the Faunus in their sleep. His massive army was outmatched, and the general was captured." Blake gives the example of Pyrrhas answer.
Oobleck nods his head and sips his coffee. Alabast wonders when the last time he slept and how much caffeine he his in his veins.
Blake turns to Cardin. "Perhaps if he'd paid attention in class, he wouldn't have been remembered as such a failure."
Cardin gets up from his seat, fist clenched as he faces Blake.
"Mr. Winchester! Please take your seat." Oobleck calls out from the front of the class.
Alabast smirks at this. He nearly stood up to confront Cardin. Oobleck zooms up to Alabast and Cardin as he stands in front of the two. Cardin turns to see Oobleck in front of Alabast and takes his seat behind Alabast. "You and Mr. Noir can both see me after class for additional readings." He takes yet another sip of his coffee.
"I didn't even do anything" Alabast grumbles to himself. He feels Weiss put a hand on his shoulder briefly. She smiled at him and then took her hand off as the professor continued.
Oobleck zooms away "Now! Moving on!"
He continues his class for hours. They take a lunch break and come back. It's just more of the same stuff. Humans and Faunus battling each other. Oobleck can probably talk for days on this subject since it's happened since the very beginning of Humans and Faunus.
Class ends and everyone leaves the room. Weiss says her goodbye as she walks past Alabast and meets up with her team. The rest of team ANVL walk outside as well.
Pyrrha stops just outside the classroom doors. "You go on ahead. I'll wait for Alabast."
They look back inside as the after-class talk occurs to the two boys. Ren and Nora say goodbye and join up with team RWBY as they leave.
Oobleck sips his coffee as he stands before the two young men. "You two have been struggling in my class since day one! Now, I don't know if it's a lack of interest, or just your stubborn nature, but whatever it is..."
He takes a longer sip of his coffee "It stops now! You've worked hard to gain entrance to this school, and we only accept the best of the best, so I expect you to act like it. History is important, gentlemen! If you can't learn from it... you're destined to repeat it. Pages fifty-one to ninety-one! I want an essay on my desk by next class! Now! Run along."
With that, Oobleck zooms out of the classroom and past a waiting Pyrrha in a green and white blur. Alabast comes out first, and Cardin emerges behind him, hitting him with his shoulder hard as he walks past. The nudge only made Alabast slightly move.
Alabast turns to Cardin who was walking past.
"Hey ape!" Cardin turns around with a snarl on his face and his fists clenched. "What do you want mutt!"
Alabast smirks at the idiot. "Nothing, just seeing if you would respond to 'ape' since that's what you act like"
"Why you son of a bi-" Cardin stomps his right foot forward and raises his right fist in front of him.
Alabast makes a belt out of his darkness semblance and snaps it together twice as he looks down on Cardin. "I told you what would happen last time. Now, where does a parent hit a disobedient child? I wouldn't know since I lost my parents at a young age but I can think of a few places. Time for some punishment"
Alabast takes a step forward towards Cardin and raises the belt high into the air and it has a dark mist rolling off of it.
Cardin's face pales and he backs up and then turns around and leaves quickly.
Pyrrha has her scroll out recording this since she knew Alabast would handle it. She got a perfect angle of Alabast from the front. Not directly his front but at an angle.
Alabast let's the belt disappear and lowers his raised arm. Pyrrha ends the recording and puts her scroll away. "You know, you should have probably done it"
"It's more effort than it's worth" Alabast turns towards Pyrrha and sighs.
"The gang will love to see what you just did. Especially our….what are we? Your 'mates'? But that's a little…..much. Anyway, the rest would really enjoy it" She smiles at Alabast who stands up tall and walks closer to her.
"Yeah? Does that mean you enjoyed it?" He smirks.
"Maybe" Pyrrha blushes a little and shrugs.
Alabast steps into her personal space and makes her take a step back as she bumps into the wall behind her. He slams his left hand against the wall next to her head. He's doing the famous wall slam again.
Pyrrha blushes as she stands against the wall and looks up slightly at Alabast's face which has a confident smile on it. His red eye looking deeply in her green eyes as he leans forwards toward her face.
"Only maybe?" He asks.
Pyrrha blushes more at how assertive Alabast is being. "Actually, I really enjoyed it" she quietly says.
"Oh really? Look who's being honest finally. Guess that deserves and award"
Alabast grabs Pyrrha's wrist with his right hand and drags her down a hall towards a spot he found one day during his free time alone. He doesn't make her fall, but his strides are a bit longer than hers. She's forced to take smaller strides or else she would step on his feet as she is pulled behind him.
Alabast and Pyrrha come onto a rooftop of one of the buildings, with a clear view of the glowing green orbs in the central tower of Beacon. The rooftop is flat and there isn't much on it, only a few pipes along the sides. The view is great from where they are.
"Where did you find this? It's beautiful" Pyrrha stands beside Alabast as they stop at the edge of the roof. There's no railing or fence, it's just a clear view and a long fall to the bottom.
The dark night sky is full of stars and the shattered moon is also glowing bright. Alabast let's go of her hand.
"I found this place when I was bored and we had our 'alone time' that we agreed we should have. I wandered around campus and found this place. It's view is better at night honestly" Alabast stands on the edge as he looks out at the campus and Beacons central tower.
"Why did you decide to take me here?" She turns to Alabast and sees that he is on the edge. She doesn't worry, because it's Alabast and he can just use his semblance to catch himself if he falls. There is some slight winds, but only strong enough to blow their clothes and hair around. She steps beside Alabast and looks at the moon that's above the central tower.
"I told you I would reward you" Alabast looks at Pyrrha.
She smiles and puts her hand behind her back.
"But the view isn't your reward" He pulls her back from the edge.
"It isn't?" She turns 90 degrees to face Alabast.
"No, but I guess it's also a reward for me too" Alabast smiles at Pyrrha.
"What is it?" Pyrrhas face gets a little red. She can see Alabast's eyes glow in the moonlight like an animals eye would reflect the light in the dark.
"Nobody goes up here, it's private and secluded" Alabast puts his right hand on Pyrrhas cheek.
"Oh? Should I be worried?"
"Only if you want to be" Alabast kisses her soft lips with his own. He puts his left arm around her waist and brings her closer to himself. Pyrrha puts an arm around his neck and her other hand goes under Alabast hair that covers his face and moves it so she can see his full face if she backs away. However, she has her eyes closed currently while she enjoys her first kiss.
They take their faces away from each other. Alabast knows she moved his hair out of his face. He swaps his right arm out for his left around her waist. He covers his left side with his hand. "Cmon Pyrrha. You don't need to look at this" He isn't mad when he says this, he talks quietly and sweetly.
He knows his girlfriends aren't afraid of his scars, but that doesn't mean that he wants to show them off. He doesn't want to ruin her first kiss with the scars that are really bad like the left side of his face.
Pyrrha smiles at him. His face is handsome and his features are sharp. His blood red eyes are gorgeous to her and she can get lost in their depths if she looks too hard. His long black hair with gray tips add to his handsomeness. Most of his scars aren't that bad on his face. They mostly are small and spaced out. The main ones are the single scar below his right eye, and the scars that surround his left eye and the entirety of the left side of his forehead. It looks very painful even now just looking at it. She thinks of how bad the wounds must have been to leave such scars. But it doesn't make him ugly. Talking about scars is always touchy, no matter who has them.
Pyrrha moves his hand away from his face.
"I want to see the full face of my boyfriend after he kissed me for the first time" She smiles brightly and let's the hair stay away from his face. She puts her right palm over his left eye and lets her fingers glide over the scars.
Alabast closes his eyes and tilts his head into her hand. His arm that was moved away falls to his side. "Still….."
"You know we think you're handsome. Even with the scars. We actually think they're kinda hot you know?" She blushes remembering when she talked with the girls about Alabast. Nora was there also, she said 'I have Ren, but that doesn't mean I can't admire beauty when I see it'. They laughed at that and how she said it like it was common knowledge.
"I knew the first part at least. And it's good you girls find them hot because I've got plenty" He smiles genuinely and can't get rid of it, not that he wanted to get rid of it. He was happy and wanted Pyrrha to know.
"I haven't seen you fully after you had some of them disappear. But even while you had all the scars you looked sexy"
Alabast feels the blood rush to his face. It already was previously, but now he gets a small blush on his cheeks. He opens his eyes and looks to the left.
Then he looks to Pyrrha and his smile turns into a smug grin. "We can change that first part" He takes his arm away from her wrist and brings his hands to the buttons of the school uniforms blazer. He undoes them revealing the blue vest, red tie, and white long sleeve dress shirt. He undoes the vest next as he watches Pyrrhas gaze go from his face to his hands as they undo the buttons.
He finishes the buttons on the vest revealing the dressshirt and tie. He loosens the tie with his right hand before he undoes the tie and let's it hang around his neck, the right side hanging lower than the left. Alabast unbuttons the top
3 revealing half his pecs. The dress shirt is tight on his muscles and he spreads the shirt apart revealing more skin.
Pyrrha is staring at Alabast's collar bones that were extremely defined. Then she sees Alabast put his arms around her waist.
"Can you get the rest for me?" That same smug smirk still on his face as Pyrrha looks back up at it and blushes again.
She doesn't say anything but moves her hands to the buttons. As she undoes them she can feel Alabast's chest beneath and as she continues down more of his torso is revealed. She never knew something like this was so…..intimate and exciting.
She gets to the bottom but the rest is tucked into his pants. She looks at his abs that are on full display as the shirt opens enough to outline them.
"Just pull the shirt up" Alabast says. He's no longer blushing but enjoying messing with her. And he enjoys her touch and how she tries to hide her feeling him up by fidgeting with a button longer than she needs to.
Pyrrha freezes for a second after hearing Alabast. But she does as he says and pulls it up and out of his pants.
"Can you get the back too? It's weird having only half not tucked in"
Pyrrha has to get closer to Alabast as she reaches her arms to his sides and pulls the shirt up letting the back escape.
She sees his oblique muscles, on the sides of his abdomen, form a defined 'v' shape that leads to his crotch. She blushes as she undoes the last 2 buttons.
She takes her hands away from Alabast and look at his hyperdefined muscles. They aren't huge like a body builders or lean like a swimmers muscles are. They are inbetween. Like the main character from that anime she was recommended from her aquantances, 'JoeJoes wacky adventures'. Not huge, but big and super defined. Like unnaturally so. But damn she has to admit it looks absolutely amazing.
"I got it from here" He takes his hands from her waist and takes his time removing the clothes all at once. He gets them off to his forearms behind him before it gets stuck. He turns around and holds his hands out for Pyrrha to help him. "Apparently I don't got it"
Pyrrha chuckles and helps Alabast out. She moves the clothes off his arms completely and sees his back now. And it's just as great as the front. Each muscle is clearly visible to the eye.
No muscle is over proportioned. They all look natural and perfectly sculpted by the 2 gods of Remnant. Apparently they both agreed on something and finally worked together to create this masterpiece.
Alabast turns around to face her again and takes the clothes from her hands. He tosses them to the side and let's his arms go back to Pyrrhas waist again.
"You're drooling" Alabast says.
Pyrrha turns beet-red and brings the back of her hand to wipe her mouth only to realize she wasn't.
"Hahaha" Alabast laughs heartily. He's laughed with or at the girls from time to time but this was the most he has. He closes his eyes as he laughs.
"Hey!" Pyrrha realized that Alabast lied to her and she only had her mouth open. She punches his chest decently hard and almost hurts her wrist. It didn't feel like she punched a normal bare chest, it was solid but still distinctly skin. "Dang" Her finger tips touch his chest and push against it to test it out.
"You can touch it more. You don't have to be so gentle and shy" Alabast watches as Pyrrha removes her hand and looks up at his face. She gives him a small nervous smile. "Alright"
She puts her hand on his chest and feels the warmth of his body. His body temperature is higher than normal humans. She remembers the first time on the cliff side when she held him he also was hotter than she expected when she touched his bare skin. When the cuddle together it's kinda hard to tell with the clothes and blanket. But his bare skin makes it obvious. It's not like it's a big difference, but enough for her to notice a difference.
The scars on his body were clearly deep and precise. They didn't cut into any vital areas. She couldn't believe someone could do this to someone so young. But she quickly let those thoughts go.
Shem moved her hands over his muscles. His abs felt the best in her opinion.
Alabast shudders lightly.
"Sorry!" Pyrrha quickly takes her hands away.
"I'm good, Pyrrha. I'm just not used to being felt up is all" Pyrrha had been moving her hands across his skin and he wasn't that ticklish but it was still an unnatural feeling to him and he couldn't stop his body.
"Oh" Pyrrha sighs in relief, she thought she hurt him or touched somewhere she wasn't supposed to.
"Yep" Alabast leaned forward towards Pyrrha and she went on her toes and kissed Alabast. Her hands helping her as she leans on Alabast.
Alabast stops the kiss but only moves far enough away to tell her: "I love you, Pyrrha Nikos"
Pyrrha looks at him and has a big smile on her face. She has small tears at the corners of her eyes. "Alabast"
She moves higher and seals his lips again. She deepens the kiss and they tilt their heads in opposite directions for a better angle. Alabast pulls Pyrrha closer to his body so she's pressing up against him.
Pyrrha has her arms underneath Alabast's arms and hugs him. Her hands reach his back and she holds him tightly as they make out.
They both feel a heat within themselves growing. They would stop every now and then for a breath of air but would go back to kissing.
"Pyrrha" Alabast breath is hot and he grabs her waist and moves her to the wall beside the door and presses her against it. He grabs her wrists in one hand and put them above her head.
He takes a minute to breathe and calm down a little. He doesn't want to cut her tongue or lip with his canines, that would ruin the moment.
He rests his forehead on hers and closes his eyes as he just focuses on her breathing. She's taking deep breaths he can feel them against his bare chest.
"Bast?" He hears Pyrrha say quietly as she catches her breath.
"That's surprisingly a new one" He smiles and moves his head away to look at Pyrrha.
Pyrrha laughs lightly. "Really?"
"Yeah. I haven't heard anyone say it to me if they did" He almost added 'Not even Ayaka came up with it alongside her stupid nicknames'. He's grateful he didn't. Try not to talk about other girls when you're with a girl in a romantic setting, it totally kills the mood depending on the context 9/10 times.
"Great!" She said loudly before she kissed him again. She had to move off the wall and it was awkward so Alabast moved her head back to the wall. He wasn't sure how he hadn't cut her mouth with his canines but he didn't focus on that do long.
His right hand was holding her wrists above her head against the wall. His left was used as support for him to lean down so he doesn't get a cramp in his back, he doesn't think he will but it's better safe than sorry so he can keep going longer.
They lost track of the time long ago. About as soon as they got onto the roof. They only knew it was late but didn't care.
When Alabast would back away from Pyrrha to let them breathe she saw him with the moon and Beacon tower behind him. The green orbs in the tower and the moon shined brightly in the clear night sky that had stars sprinkled on it. Since the lights were behind Alabast he was more of a silhouette with red eyes. Without his school uniform on his muscles were the outline of the silhouette. It would have been scary if she didn't know who he was. But knowing that it's him it was amazing. His figure with his wolf ears atop his head, and his tail moving behind him quickly. She burned the image into her mind so she wouldn't forget it. This scene was spectacular and she wouldn't be able to see this exact scene again. But she wouldn't mind repeating this moment over and over in an attempt to see it again.
They kept at it for a while longer. Alabast let his head rest on her shoulder and he let her wrists go. "We should stop here. I won't be able to hold back if we keep going. But I don't want to go back just yet"
Pyrrha felt Alabast's breath against her collar and clothes. She put one hand on the back of his head and the other on his back underneath his arm so she supported him a bit as he leaned on her and the wall. "Alright. And I don't want to go back either"
Pyrrha closed her eyes and rested her head against the side of Alabast's. They stood there for minutes.
Alabast got up and gave her a peck on the lips and dragged her to the edge of the roof.
He sat her down so her legs were over the edge of the roof. She made sure her skirt wasn't exposing her and looked up to Alabast who went behind her and sat down with her between his legs as they also dangles over the edge.
"I can get used to this" Pyrrha says as Alabast wraps his arms around her. The night air with the wind is cold in while Alabast's body heat is a welcome contrast as it envelops her. His arms are low so his hands wrap around her waist and her rests his chin on her left shoulder. So when she looks at Alabast she can't see the left portion of his face.
"Glad to hear that. Because I can too"
They sit there in a comfortable silence looking at the surrounding buildings and sky for a while.
"Y'know, I was jealous when Yang stole your first kiss. And when you kissed Weiss….. twice...back-to-back" Pyrrha admitted.
"Yeah? I didn't want to kiss each of you after you confessed. That's too cliche, I wanted them to mean something. Yangs was the surprise that fits her style. And Weiss was me teasing her. And yours was…that" Alabast didn't know how to describe it.
"Well, I had an amazing first kiss. And all the ones following that kiss including pjs make out session. This definitely meant something and was very memorable. It was worth the wait"
"It certainly was. It was amazing"
They talked for a half hour before deciding to go back to the dorm. They were feeling a bit lazy so decided to use Alabast's semblance to move them there instantly.
Alabast grabbed his clothes and held Pyrrha as they were about to sink into the darkness Alabast stops.
"What's wrong?" Pyrrha asks.
"Just realized that we should go to the hallway instead of immediately inside the room. Be polite to Nora and Ren and knock before entering"
"Good catch, Bast"
"It's official. I really like that nickname, reminds me of something godlike"
"You're body certainly is" Pyrrha mutters under her breath.
"What?" Gotta love enhanced hearing. And Pyrrha realizes that.
"Let's get going!" She exclaims and tries to move past her slip of the tongue.
Alabast just smiles and they sink into the shadow beneath them. They reappear outside their dorm room. It was pretty late but not that late. They accidentally missed dinner, but they weren't going to complain.
Alabast let Oyrrha go and knocked on the door before using his scroll to unlock it. He waited a few more seconds and then entered.
When they walked inside they saw Ren and Nora sitting above the covers on Rens bed with Noras scroll in front of them and they were watching something.
"Hey you two! Where have y-. Why are you half naked?" Nora shouted excitedly but stopped when she saw Alabast shirtless.
"The uniform is still too tight and I got tired of it while we were on a rooftop so I took it off. Also got pretty hot" Alabast nonchalantly says and goes to hang up his uniform and grabs his pjs.
Nora looks to Pyrrha and smirks and raises an eyebrow as she narrows her eyes. "On a rooftop~? Alone together~? For hours~? I'm sure Alabast wasn't the only hot thing on that rooftop. I'm sure something was steamy~"
Alabast heads into the bathroom but before he closes the door: "if you wanna know the details Pyrrha can tell you if she wants to"
Nora disappears from the bed and appears in front of Pyrrha with giant sparkly puppy dog eyes.
Pyrrha tries to resist for as long as she can but can't hold out for lon and slouches her shoulders. "Alright…" Nora was about to pull her to the common room but "….AFTER I change into my pajamas"
"Fine" Nora deflates a little bit then jumps across the room and lands on top of Ren.
"Nora! What did I tell you about jumping on me like this!" She landed heavily on Ren. Not that she weighed much, but the force it took to launch herself plus gravity wasn't small.
"I wasn't listening or I forgot. Whoopsie!" She giggled as she hugged Ren.
"Whoopsie" Ren flatly repeated. He knew she totally remembered but still did it.
Alabast came out and Pyrrha went in. After she came out she was whisked away by Nora to the common room and the door was slammed shut.
"I am assuming Pyrrha agreed?" Alabast sat on his bed grabbed a brush Yang had gifted him. It was just an extra one, she had like 20. She's very thorough when it comes to her hair.
Alabast brings his tail to his lap and starts brushing it.
"Agreed? More like 'caved in' to Noras pleading and puppy dog eyes" Ren looks at Alabast and sits back up from his tackled position.
Alabast looks up at Ren with his eyes not moving his head and raises his eyebrow.
Ren blinks lazily. "Really? That bothers you? Puppy dog eyes?"
"I'm just messing with you Ren" Alabast looks back to his tail and continues brushing.
"Ha. Ha. Very funny Alabast. You're quite the comedian" Ren says in his usual tone and waves with the back of his hand like he's telling a person to leave.
"Hey Ren" Alabast says in an attempt to reset the conversation.
"Hey Alabast"
"We should hang out more. Like, just the two of us. There aren't any other decent guys in Beacon to hang out with, at least that I know. It'll be good to have some 'bro time' without the girls around"
"That…..is probably your best idea as leader besides your 'alone time' idea" It seems Ren appreciated his idea. They enjoyed spending time with the girls, but it was 2 to 6 and they were outnumbered. It didn't usually bother them, but sometimes the girls would talk about certain topics that Ren and Alabast didn't want to be a part of.
"Great. Now we have an excuse to leave the girls to their conversations we don't want to be a part of, guess what? Guy time. Or if we want the other guy to bail us out, guess what? Guy time. We just have to make it seem natural. It's a flawless plan" Alabast glances over at Ren who is looking at the ceiling with a smile on his face. That's rare. Ren smiles as infrequently as Alabast does.
Ren grabs his scroll and Alabast continues brushing his tail. The room depends into silence. Until "Eeeeee!" They hear 'muffled happy Nora noises' from the other room.
"Glad that one wasn't in my ear" Ren says as he and Alabast look at the door from where the noise came from.
Nora normally is next to or close Ren so whenever she randomly gets loud he takes the brunt of it. But he spent so much time with her since they were kids that it rarely affects him anymore.
"Same" Alabast has no idea to follow that up. He assumes that Pyrrha got to a really good part of their night together.
Alabast after some time puts his brush back and lays down on his bed and gets ready to sleep. He makes room if Pyrrha decides to join him when she is done talking with Nora.
Not long after Alabast lays down Nora busts from the common room and sends a knowing smile to Alabast. She then jumps on top of Ren again and squeezes him. "Why!" Ren questions as the air rushes out of his lungs.
"I'm just in a good mood is all!"
"That's…..great"
Pyrrha walks over to Alabast and slides under the covers next to him. She faces away from him and moves closer to his body. Alabast puts his arm around around her abdomen and pulls her completely against his front. She feels something grow hard against her upper thighs.
"Night Ember" "Sweet dreams Bast"
They quietly say to eachother as Alabast falls asleep and Pyrrha gets ready to sleep, which becomes a bit harder after she remembers her night with him and her current situation.