Azazyel's Multi Story Pile.

I was stiff as I could feel the aura of these three faunus were at their peak. No, they weren't bothering to hide their status and existence like Summer hid her edge.

These three faunus were all Sage's and that was without any doubt at all.

This obviously brought up a massive number of questions obviously. Like why were they even alive after the purges? Why were they here, and most especially? Why the hell was I called to this meeting!?

"Master." I spoke with a nod to Lux in greeting before I likewise gave the Sage's a nod of respect before I came to stand behind Lux's sitting form who was sitting in a high-backed chair notably with a highly ornate staff that screamed Lux's essence in her hands.

Which was clearly Lux's Soul Tool that was a manifestation of her various marks of Grandmastery as a Grandmaster mage in several paths.

The three sages inspected me for a long moment with the draconic-looking faunus woman with horns and slitted eye's humming and saying calmly. "Not bad Luxanna. He is clearly still new to magic and martial arts. But his aura stores are already akin to a weaker Master tier Martial Artist." 

The larger cat faunus who I quickly recognized as Ghira Belladonna, Blake Belladonna's father folded his arms over his large very muscled chest before he spoke with a gruff voice.

"His aura stores are a result of his manifestation semblance causing so much stress to it. Hmm in that vein young man. What was that weapon you used to kill that Abomination as it was at the scale of a Grandmaster's spell if not having the intensity or finesse."

I looked down at Lux who just looked sideways up at me and nodded. So I took a breath and spoke slowly and calmly. "It is a bomb. Made by tearing apart the building blocks of radioactive materials in the resulting violent reaction of radioactive elements meeting. The materials explode with great power."

The Sage's shared a look before nodding obviously not too concerned about it which made sense... As Sages were walking nuclear arsenals themselves who could defend themselves against's calmly against other nukes being thrown against them?

"Could you mass produce those bombs?" The fox faunus woman who was also clearly a warrior/aura user interjected.

I shrugged unsure and I said. "I can probably make ten of them a day if not more with my current aura stores and getting some breaks between making them." 

The reason making the last nuke went so poorly was the fact I literally made it in but seconds in a rush to smash it out. If I made it over the course of like ten minutes I wouldn't have had any issues with my aura tanking itself like it did.

The three faunus shared a look before the dragon faunus laid her hands on the large ornate table separating everyone and spoke with a regality that made me believe she was a natural-born empress with how her gaze made me feel small.

And her gaze wasn't an insult or her trying to demean me either. It was just the feeling of a wise dragon looking towards a peasant which was completely 'natural'. "Jake Bariss, what do you think that we are here for? Why do you think you yourself have been called for this meeting."

I took in her question and rolled it over in my mind for a long moment. Then I spoke slowly and thoughtfully.

"You are here in order to announce yourself obviously... Three Sages, regardless of how long they have been sages are a force to be wary of. And you wanted to announce yourself to Ozpin and have his support rather than contacting the Royal family because you didn't want to kneel to them."

The faunus shared a look with the dragon woman's eye's glowing with a crimson light as she spoke quietly as she rested her chin on her hands with her elbows on the table. "Good... That is all correct Jake. Continue your thoughts."

I took a deep breath and continued. "You likely are avoiding the Royal Family due to their Peerage Semblance and the Lich Lord so you don't have literal chains and collars on your soul and as for why you are here talking to Lux and myself..."

I had to consider that. Honestly, I couldn't exactly pinpoint why I was here. After all, I was still just an Apprentice mage who had successfully made his first spell glyph in his magical space.

Sure my Ghost Ship was great, and so were my Shipgirls who could give Masters some trouble with their giant cannons that everyone was underestimating. But myself? 

"You are here because of my web of connections. An apprentice of Luxanna Crownsguard who is best friends with the princess, heiress of the Crownsguard Duke Family."

"Beyond the connections I myself have, I am neutral in all affairs basically with how I am an orphan and not even tied to the nobility system yet for another week when whatever Class Trial results are used to distribute rewards."

The fox faunus slowly smiled before she looked at the dragon woman who was silent and just waiting for the real answer. So I took a breath and I shrugged. "As for why I myself am here... I am to be used for some form of connection between your force and the web of connections I have to everyone around myself."

The dragon woman leaned off her hands that began softly clapping slowly and with regulated force so that the clapping wasn't that loud let alone obnoxious.

"You are correct Jake. Correct on all accounts. The Faunus Redemption League wishes to use you as a bridge to bring Faunus kind back to their rightful place as equals to humanity in the war against the Grimm."

I shifted slightly and then Ghira spoke again with a gruff voice. "What remains to be decided is how you be used if you agree to it. To be taken as a disciple or apprentice to one of the Faunus Sages, to be married to a faunus to show humanity and faunus can get along... There are a number of options."

I looked down to Lux who still had her noble heiress mask on and I took a deep breath before I spoke respectfully. "I would be a fool to deny the honor it would be to have a Sage as my teacher. But my Master has already stolen me away from the teachings of another Sage." 

The three faunus's made noises of amusement as Lux shifted ever so slightly with her giving me a sideways glance that screamed. "Don't embarrass me!" 

But I finished off by saying firmly. "Either way, I will respect and if possible obey my Master's wishes in this. As she has been my faithful guardian here in my time at Beacon."

I wasn't stupid. My actions here in Beacon were anything but subtle in forming my own force around myself and yet I myself didn't even have a noble rank. The only reason some of the upjumped young nobles hadn't tried anything to me a simple commoner was simple.

My status as Lux's disciple hung over their heads like a literal guillotine should she snap on them. So besides Lux's protection and helping me deal with the church when I got Artoria out of her situation.

I also was very aware of the treasures she had given me, along with the grimoire not to mention the rest of her teachings and attention being given to me.

I wasn't one of fifty students like Calia had. No with Lux she literally only had me and Cinder as her disciples and she smothered us with attention and care whenever she could. 

It wasn't an exaggeration that Lux and Cinder herself treated me as a loved one or a family member with our disciple relationship being just as tight as a shared bloodline.

So if Lux asked me to make a sacrifice for her, so long as it wasn't something like having to give one of my Shipgirls over to Calia to be dissected. I would do whatever she asked within reason.

Once Lux got over my statement, she took a deep breath and spoke quietly. "Jake you need to keep this to yourself. Do not even share this with your fellows in your retinue for now. But there is major world information that plays a part in why I am even entertaining this."

"The cold war between Vale, Mistral, and Atlas is likely going to spark into hot combat between Masters and those below that level. With Vale being the breadbasket of the world, Atlas will be coming to steal our natural resources and especially our food stores from our mega-farms." 

The fox woman then interjected with a frown. "And Mistral's clan's and sects will be sending their fastest air ships to land in Vale's outer territories to snatch as many people to fill their endless slave auctions."

"Though it's not like Vale will be the only target in truth, Mistral and Atlas will also be raiding one another, though Atlas has a far more centralized population and is thus a terrible target for Mistral's style of fast-moving roaming brigands," Ghira added.

Taking in the information I came to a realization as things began to add up. "Shit... Let me guess, I am going to be put on some frontier or some nonsense to counter an offense of Master's and below right? As my manifested weapons in rockets, guns, and bombs are very much still effective to Master's."

Lux sighed and said with a wry smile. "That's correct Jake. It's all your fault for being able to manifest hardened massive metal fortresses you can control from dozens of miles away and restock with ammunition and supplies."

My face twitched at my master selling me out but either way, I exhaled and asked the real question. "Alright, so the war bit is... Well it's bad news for me as I am just an adorable apprentice when it comes to magic. But let's get back to the main topic. What do the sages of the Faunus want with me specifically?" 

The silver-haired fox woman chuckled with her leaning back in her chair with her taking a clay jug of booze from... Somewhere, probably an enchanted storage tool. But she just took a heavy swig of the drink before she exhaled and announced without any regret. "Heh! He has spunk to be so candid."

Her gleaming blue slit eye's pinned me in place before she spoke in that same tone with a challenging grin on her face. "So whatcha say Luxanna Crownsguard. You be his magic teacher, and I be his martial arts teacher? We both use a sword and he... He is going to need all the help he can get haha!" 

I could see over Lux's shoulder as her hand tightened around her staff that was lying across her lap and there was a pause before she said 'calmly'. "Oh? My disciple is so busy with magic, his retinue, and doing large-scale projects. That I don't think he has time for another master here in Beacon."

And the fox woman's ears twitched before she grinned and said easily. "Yeah that's true enough. He certainly is easy on the eye's and is probably spending some time between the legs of a good beauty. Alright, it's a deal then!"

Lux and I both paused as the dragon woman exhaled in annoyance and literally groaned out loud. "Feixiao... Don't cause an incident, I beg of you."

But the now-named Feixiao just laughed a full-bellied thing as she said firmly. "Ehhhh too late. Besides this what we want most of all right? An arranged marriage with Ghira's little spitfire will probably explode into a murder with how proud Blake is."

She shrugged and added on in a careless manner as she looked at me again. "Having me take him as my disciple would be for the best. The scenario of a human being taught by a Sage Faunus would be the best connection we could ask for with how filial he is to little Luxanna for example."

And then she finished off by saying.

"Plus it gives a perfect excuse for Luxanna's peace of mind... Because if Jake is nearly as effective as he was during the initiation and class trial as in stopping these slavery and resource raids. Well the unspoken rules can be broken. And it's certainly not impossible a Grandmaster from Atlas or Mistral may attempt to snuff him out or capture him for breeding or god knows what else."

Silence rang out before Ghira shrugged and said with amusement in his gruff voice. "She has a good point. His connections make him a potent target for the other nations to target. And should more open battles occur, Lux you will not be able to watch him if you are deployed to another theater."

There was a pause as Lux chewed on her thoughts. Thinking things like how someone kidnapping me would be in for a horrible surprise when The Goodwitch came to pay them a visit.

But there was also the simple reality that I could just be killed and that would be it. My potential was almost worthless if I was just killed after all. 

I say almost worthless... Because only the heavens know what the hell Calia or the Lich Lord could do with my corpse or soul if they manage to capture it.

So that left Lux in an awkward position until she spoke slowly. "Let's say that does happen. A group of Master's or Grandmaster comes to kidnap or take out my disciple. You being there and stopping their attack would be an escalation according to the unspoken rules."

Ghira then spoke rather blandly. "Isn't rather funny how the unspoken rules was only made when Ozpin after being becoming a Grandmaster and killed thirty more of the same rank of Atlas and Mistrals and even a Sage of both kingdoms? Why should Vale be the main target of Atlas and Mistral?"

Then Feixiao added with a grin that promised casual murder. "Besides the fact that we would be just defending ourselves. Should I kill a couple of Grandmasters and get questioned on it, I can just give the corpses to Lady Calia or the Lich Lord to tell the other kingdoms."

She took a breath and then finished with my face twitching at her words. "Oh sorry, our major Grimm clearing operation to clear out a new resource collection area was attacked by what we assumed was bandits. We never gave them time to announce themselves as warriors of Mistal/Atlas so there wasn't any point in taking prisoners."

I held up a hand and spoke out. "I vote for having a scary Sage backing me up for whenever I inevitably kill a bunch of slavers. Regardless of what status said Sage has with me."

Lux and the rest of the Sage's snorted at my candid and especially shameless tone with Lux shifting slightly at my words and not being so... Possessive of myself as her disciple. Which was totally fair and me taking on another master was only possible in the slightest was due to Feixiao becoming my Martial Art's Master.

So there wouldn't be any conflict between teachings in magic.

There was a long pause as the Sage's gave Lux a moment to go over it then Lux took a deep breath and spoke with some annoyance. "Gah! Fine, I won't get in the way of this!"

The dragon faunus nodded and I interjected respectfully. "Excuse me, you all have my name. But can you three introduce yourselves... Especially if you are to be my master." I directed towards Feixiao.

Feixiao herself chuckled with a sheepish grin coming across her face as she spoke. "Damn, that's a good point. Alright, my name is Feixiao, no last name as I was a slave before I escaped Mistral during the purges. And I am the Lacking Sage! Because I am lacking in rivals, worries, and all other problems haha!"

I eyed the slightly muscular fox woman with a wry smile and I wondered. 'I wonder if I will be lacking a competent teacher at the same time.'

Ghira who I recongized as Blake's father gave a short nod and said calmly. "My name is Ghira Belladona. Leader of the Tiger Tribe."

Feixiao raised up her hand lazily as she took a drink with her other hand and after taking drink of her wine out of the jar she said with a light grin. "Alrighty told you my name is Feixiao but I am the leader of the Fox Tribe even if I don't do the sneaky shit the rest of my tribe typical does."

The dragon woman then hummed and said simply. "Ophelia. Dragon Tribe leader. I am the spiritual leader of Faunus kind."

Then Ophelia stood up elegantly with Ghira and Feixiao doing the same with Ophelia speaking more formally. "With this meeting done, we will be leave now. Jake when you are inevitably deployed for your talents, Feixiao will then take you under her wing and be your guardian and safety net."

Lux herself stood up from her chair and likewise spoke in a somewhat formal manner as she responded in turn. "Then as Ozpin has said, you Sages and Grandmaster's are welcome within Beacon for discussions and trade in the future."

The three Sages then left the room, besides Feixiao giving me a cheeky wink, and I was left in the room with just Lux who just slumped back into her seat and threw her arms over her chest with a clear pout on her face.

"Jaaakkkkeee, why did you accept Feixiao's request so easily! Did you fall in love with her muscles already!" Lux whined loudly making me chuckle as she kicked the chair a bit so she could glare/pout at me as hard as possible.

I just shrugged and after a bit... I said shamelessly. "Those thighs though Lux. Come on, you know she could crush a literal engine with those."

And my words weren't even false. Feixiao was a literal Sage of martial arts and could punch through mountains. Even still Lux choked and looked at me in despair as she held patted her own thighs. "What about my thighs? Aren't they so soft and huggable?" 

I took a deep breath and with all the wisdom of the ancients I spoke. "Soft thighs are for snuggles, strong thighs are for hugging during hard times."

There was a silence before Lux's face cracked and she rolled her eye's. "I shall remember that wisdom my disciple... Don't say that around Master Goodwitch, or she will put you through a wall for being so crass." She reminded me with some amusement.

I shrugged and said with some amusement. "Ehh... She will do it at some point I imagine. Anyway, are you actually ok with this?"

Lux got out of her chair and I grunted as she poked me in the stomach and stepped away from Lux who rolled her eye's and said firmly. "No, I am not happy with this. It's one thing if you were a Master already and sought another official teacher in another path. But you are still an Apprentice." 

I shrugged and with a wry smile, I said. "Well... We haven't exactly had much time to sit down for long lessons, you know. I still need to form at least four Apprentice tier spell matrices in my magic core before I can form an Adept level spell matrix."

Lux nodded with some annoyance as we were both very busy as Lux despite her younger age was one of the heads of the magical branch of Beacon with her being a Grandmaster in multiple schools of magic and a Master in literally several dozen magical paths.

And I had spent much of the previous week working my ass off to make the Black Pearl with Jean's help.

There was a pause before Lux took a deep breath and said. "I do need to concentrate your lessons though. Your lessons won't be about the core of magic, and the major principles. If you are being thrown into war, you will need to be a battlemage and not a researcher."

Lux's gaze was heavy as she spoke firmly. "However, this is fine for now and even up to the Journeyman level. But you must understand that Master tier mages and above need to research and comprehend their magical path as Grimoire's aren't nearly as effective." 

I exhaled a bit and shrugged before I said bluntly. "I can lock myself into a library and lab to experiment and understand magic after the coming conflict peters out... Either way, in that topic what spell should I learn next?" 

Lux raised an eyebrow and with some amusement, she retorted calmly. "Ask your Grimoire that. It's got the will of the Cutting Rain Grandmaster within it so it will still give you more spell matrices in the water element which is your preferred element." 

Lux took a breath and then she continued. "Now sit down. Seeing as I have the rest of the day free, I should give you a good lesson for the next hour on some important magical knowledge you should understand."

-

Across the great abyss called the ocean that was filled with countless magical treasures and horrors uncounting. Pandora Niko's sat upon a throne of bronze as she swirled a cup of wine, as she stared out into her vineyards and estate.

Notably, upon the repaired balcony, she melted when she learned that Ozpin had pulled another one of his antics in stealing several collections of high-value vintages.

The sounds of soft cloth-covered feet across her marble floors rang out and she looked to the side as she watched as one of her slaves. One of the pretty house ones she kept due to them being good show pieces in how she could refine weaker humans and faunus's into living art.

Not at all one of the gladiator slaves, or heavens forbid a field slave that was destined to die working her fields or the mines that sprawled across the dozens of miles wide Nikos Family estate.

"My lady." The house slave whispered and Pandora remembered who this one was as she saw the tail of the fox faunus swish behind her slightly.

"Koyanska, what message do you carry?" Pandora spoke imperiously, knowing this faunus was a new collection she bought at a heavy price a couple of months ago. From a collection operation that happened in an Atlas mining town.

The faunus bowed her head slightly in subservience hiding her face as she spoke lowly. "The clan's ships have met with the ships of the Xiao clan with the ships forming a fleet at the agreement of the captains to raid a larger settlement within Valian territory."

Pandora shifted slightly before she nodded slowly. "That is good... There will be issues of loot separation and conflict in that. But I trust Tyranus to do what he needs to do to keep my cut in order."

Though privately Pandora had a darker thought running in her mind. 'The Xiao Clan still assumes that Pyrrha is their property after paying the bride price even after she fled Mistral. Foolish to assume they will get anywhere near Beacon.'

Pandora then took a smell of her wine, taking in it's aroma before she took an elegant sip from the bronze chalice that was studded with large gleaming topaz's, and emeralds.

Then she paused before she exhaled heavily. "Go to another room Koyanska." She said sharply as the air sharply rose in temperature with the fox faunus running away quickly at seeing her mistress's anger.

Pandora rose into the air, flying in the air due to her Sage grade mana having so much mass that she could ignore gravity and as she flew up. She gazed with glowing molten eye's at the man likewise flying in the air several hundred feet away from her manor.

"You dare to intrude upon my estate without invitation Xiao Yan?" Pandora drawled out coldly to the man, the patriarch and Sage of the Xiao clan who her daughter Pyrrha was set to marry into.

Xiao Yan didn't respond to Pandora's threatening tone. He merely questioned in a calm and cold manner. "You will not interfere should my people bring Pyrrha back to Mistral, will you?"

Pandora's sage tool gleamed in her hand in a large arcing spear of bronze with the handle being of molten metal and the spear tip having countless sparks of lightning between the jagged points.

"You will change your tone with me Xiao Yan... I tore that marriage contract in half with my own blood-soaked hands after I killed my concubine who thought he could sell Pyrrha off as though he was my husband, let alone my equal!" Pandora spoke coldly.

The surrounding air flickered with hazy heat as even with the moonlight being the only illumination in the surroundings. The fire and lava sages were putting out so much heat that the air passively flickered as the air combusted into plasma.

Then Xiao Yan smiled, but it was a cold thing as he said blandly. "I see... The fact you aren't attacking means that you won't act openly then. I can accept that." 

Then Pandora scowled with her flicking her spear at the Sage who waved his hands with a massive sword appearing into his hands to block a blinding bolt of lightning bigger than a skyscraper that pushed him through the air for several miles.

But as the lightning bolts blinding radiance faded the Xiao clan's patriarch and sage didn't rush back in to fight. No he already got an answer and Pandora's powerful blow was merely her lashing out in anger.

As both of them knew. That although Mistral operated entirely on the logic of the strong rule, and weak obey. That they were evenly matched and that coming to blows now would only result in Pandora lashing out harder due to the battle inevitably destroying her estate.

Likewise, the Xiao clan patriach didn't push Pandora too far. As he knew all to well that having a volcano violently burst into existence within his clan's territory would lead to all his clan's people dying along with all their belongings burned away. 

Not to mention Pandora would piss on the ashes by making the volcanic eruption be filled with toxic fumes so the land coudn't be resettled upon for years even with earth mages closing up the volcanic vent.

Pandora just watched as Xiao Yan flew away with jet's of blue flames shooting from his feet to push him away from the Nikos estate at high speed.

After a moment of flying she landed back on her balcony and she elegantly sat back in her seat, but as she took her highly elegant chalice back into her hands. She brushed her thumb over the centeral large emerald that matched Pyrrha's own eye color several times as she was deep in thought.

Then she raised an eyebrow as she saw Koyanska, that fox faunus with pink hair come out of the other room with the clay jar containing more of the wine she was drinking. "I did not call for you." Pandora said with a chilly undercurrent in her voice.

Koyanska bowed her head in submission before she spoke quietly. "Your chalice is empty my lady. Do you wish for me to return the wine?"

Pandora was silent for a long moment before she looked away from the fox faunus with her expression still as she said quietly. "Pour me my drink and leave me."

Koyanska closed in and then carefully poured the high-quality wine, and then she stepped back and bowed to the silent stage before leaving with Pandora exhaling softly after being left alone.

Then she stared off into the distance as she wondered what Pyrrha was doing... Unknowing that Pyrrha was being an utter fool as she was kicking her bed loudly as she hugged her pillow after Jake told her he would happily meet her that night.

"Be safe my daughter... Let no one chain you down." Pandora muttered to herself before closing her eye's as she took a much deeper drink of the wine.

-

After finishing a long lesson with Lux that filled my mind with a good deal of magical knowledge. I sent Pyrrha a message asking if she was free to hang out tonight, and if so where would she like to meet while finishing my conversation with Lux.

"So is there any news on rewards from the Class Trial?" I asked curiously.

Lux blinked at my question and then she nodded. "It's a bit of a toss up, obviously you won. But you have a bit of political issues with Pyrrha and Weiss being on your team. But yes, you yourself and the rest of your group can expect rewards soon in the next couple of days."

Then Lux waved me off as she took a drink before she said. "Alright Jake, I have much to think about so you go on ahead."

And all too soon afterward's I got a quick message sent back to me as I stood up and left the room. [I am free now if you want to hang out? I have my own dorm in the lower nobles quarters if you want to come over?]

I shrugged and looked up the map of Beacon to look at where she was living and sent a message back saying I was on my way unless she needed some time to get ready/clean up.

[No! Come on over! I am totally free to hang out if you want.]

So I obviously headed over to Pyrrha's place as she was still a nice girl... And the fact that she had a clear crush on me was icing on the cake.

I made my way over to Pyrrha's dorm without any issues and once I got there, Pyrrha herself was already waiting for me at the front door of the much more elegant looking nobles dorms. That was a great deal different from the commoner dorms I briefly stayed in.

"Jake, I am glad you were able to come." Pyrrha said with a skip in her step as she stepped over and pulled the door open for us to head into the dorms. 

I smiled and said easily. "Yeah, I needed some time to decompress with a friend." 

Pyrrha's smile widened at that with her saying quickly. "Here! I have my room on the first floor, thankfully so I don't need to go far."

The red-haired beauty then opened up the door and I raised an eyebrow at how Pyrrha had clearly taken her culture from home here, as the room was filled with bronze accent's and marble finishes.

Though I did notice that besides a couple of wooden chairs next to a dining table, where she seemingly ate or did her reading. The only major furniture in the room was her very large and plush bed. Was a large L-shaped couch.

"So! I got some snacks from the dormitory store... Wanna watch a movie or something? Or we can just talk if you want to relax!" Pyrrha said, quickly waving her hands around making me chuckle at how adorable she was.

"Yeah, a simple comedy movie or something would be nice. Something I don't need to feel bad about if we talk over." I spoke in an easy going manner to hopefully put Pyrrha at ease.

Thankfully it did seem to work as she gave a small smile and pointed at the couch and said. "Sounds good Jake. Go ahead and sit down and I will grab the snacks from the kitchen." 

With that I kicked off my shoes and relaxed on the couch after I moved a blanket over to the side... And I realized that the room itself was actually rather chilly honestly.

Like cold enough that my hands would become pretty nippy in the next half and hour or something cold.

Then Pyrrha came back into my room with a bowl filled with some goodies, chocolates, nuts, some sweet breads. And I noticed that her snacks were on the 'healthier' side at least in the way there wasn't any terrible preservatives or whatever in them.

"So how are you feeling Jake?" Pyrrha asked casually as she put the bowl of goodies on the small table in front of the couch.

"I am feeling a lot better thank you for asking Pyrrha." I responded in kind and then Pyrrha stood back up and pointed at the remote to the tv that was at the end of the living room. 

"You can pick us a movie if you want. I need to get changed as I just got back from the library." With Pyrrha wearing a pair of jeans and a tighter long-sleeved shirt, I didn't blame her for wanting to get comfortable so I just nodded.

And I coudn't help watching Pyrrha walking away with those tight jeans doing something magical with that ass of hers as she left the room.

'Hate to see her go... Yet love to watch her leave.' I mused to myself before I figured out the tv and how Pyrrha had already downloaded a number of movies and tv shows.

Much of them being soap operas and the most emotional kinds of romance movies making my lips twitch as I coudn't find any action or simple comedy movies.

So I just settled for a romantic comedy that was about a foriegn princess warrior, who after being crippled during a war is taken in as a prisoner of war and she falls in love with the doctor who takes care of her.

And the comedy part was supposed to be about how she clashed so much with the natural culture of the male doctor she was going after.

Normally I would think it was a bit on the nose with how I myself was 'totally' a Valian, and she was from Mistral. But the movie was about a Vacuo bastard princess who didn't inherit the Abizar's inherent magic of mass conjuration like my own conjuration ability. And said warrior princess fell in love with a doctor from Atlas.

"You find the movie directory alright?" Pyrrha asked as she opened the door and I looked over with my lips twitching at the sight before myself.

I expected something like a ragged sleeping shirt and maybe some pajama pants bottoms with how cold it was in the room... But Pyrrha was wearing short shorts that were all but painted on her curvacous bottom and a very short midriff exposing shirt that exposed some of underboob with her nipples sticking clear out of the black shirt with how cold it was.

Pyrrha quickly sat beside me with her throwing the blanket I moved over herself to get comfortable and I spoke after clearing my head. "Uhh yeah, I thought this movie looked interesting at least. I don't know too much about Vacou at all and thought this could be fun."

The amazonian beauty gave a small chuckle and after she pulled a side pillow behind her she spoke in some amusement. "Well this is a three-hour movie. So why don't you lay down on the chaise and if I get tired as well I can lay across the couch the long way."

I raised an eyebrow at her offer before I shrugged and moved over to the L part of the couch and found it was actually rather comfortable with my feet only just hanging off the end of the cushion which was just fine as I liked to let my feet breath outside of the blankets.

"Alright, just don't pull a Nora and doodle on my face when I am sleeping." I said jokingly with Pyrrha snorting at the thought.

The movie began and I watched as it depicted the great sandy deserts of Vacou and introduced the main heroine before Pyrrha spoke quietly.

"Thank you for being so kind and welcoming to me Jake. No one else has been so kind to me here in Vale... And especially back home."

I didn't exactly know how to respond to that. So I just patted her knee with her taking my hand into hers as I pulled it back. And as soon as she took my hand she said almost scoldingly. "Oh Jake. Your hand is so cold, what if you start to lose your sword skills and be like that lumbering fool Jingliu with her great sword."

And that... Utterly shameless wench Pyrrha threw the large blanket outwards so it was covering us both with her letting go of my hand as though scalded as her face flushed at the realization that now were sharing a blanket.

And with how she have moved the blankets I could now see the pale cleavage out of the top of her somewhat low cut shirt. But I most certainly didn't comment.

I just chuckled and said teasingly. "Oh my hands are so cold huh?" And at Pyrrha's blank expression I attacked!

My cold hands under the cover of darkness, 'the blanket' attacked Pyrrha's deadly weak point, her Achilles heel!

She jolted and squeaked in an utterly adorable way as my right hand snaked around her waist with my cold hand latching onto her right side.

"You! Let go it's cold!" Pyrrha giggled as she jolted away slightly with her flush of embarrassment turning in excitement as I laughed evilly and pulled her closer so I could grab her other side with my other cold hand.

"Never! You brought me into this cold ass apartment and didn't even offer me a warm cup of tea so you must warm my hands with your body!"

The movie was ignored as Pyrrha totally fought with all her might to escape my cold hands and after a minute I pulled my hands back and let her relax with her huffing as I pulled the large blanket back up to cover us up.

And afterwards Pyrrha spoke kinda sheepishly. "Wait... Should I have actually offered you a drink? I never had friends over and during social meetings the families servant's would do all that kind of stuff." 

I held in a 'what the hell do you mean?' As I just hummed and said quietly. "Outside of the nobility, where servants would bring refreshments and such. It is normal for hosts to offer their guests a drink of choice of what they are willing to share." 

Pyrrha gave a weak smile at my explanation but I gently patted her leg and said easily. "Relax, I was just joking around previously... But I didn't know you were so ticklish."

And Pyrrha's almost guilty expression turned into a pout as she looked at me with blame and said pointedly. "I have never been tickled before! How could I be able to resist it?"

I just turned up my nose and said in a snooty manner. "Ah I see. So it is entirely a skill issue on your part."

There was a moment as only the movie filled the room with noise, as Pyrrha gaped my shameless words and she growled with her rolling across the couch onto my side and she mounted herself atop me and tried to push my hands above my head so she could tickle me as well.

Sure she had trained for years in combat, sure she probably had some experience in grappling. But there was something Pyrrha didn't have that I did have in spades.

The experience of having several cousins to wrestle with back when I was kid and I knew all the evil techniques to mess with someone who attempted to mount atop my chest.

"Now you can see what its- Hahaha stop noooo!" Pyrrha shrieked as I broke free of her hand that couldn't handle both of mine and with her mounted atop me... She couldn't get to my real tickle spots!

My fingers danced across her exposed stomach and waist with her rolling away from me but I wasn't going to let this attack go unpunished and unchallenged so I grabbed her around the waist and pulled her agaisnt me with her exhaling heavily at the feeling.

With my face coming close to the back of her head before she giggled helplessly as I tangled my legs in hers to keep her from kicking off to get away from my tickling.

After a minute of that... I realized this was a bit much as so I stopped with Pyrrha just sagging and stopping her shuddering full-bodied giggles against me. And I could feel her full ass pushing against my waist that had been moving against me so much with her giggle fit.

'Ah hell, is she trying to trap me? Or did I just trap myself?' I thought as Pyrrha's breath was slow but deep and she remained turned away from me for a moment before I froze as she rolled atop me.

But it wasn't her trying to mount me for another tickle fight... No this was all too clearly intimate as her large breasts laid on my chest with her face but inches away from mine. 

And with Pyrrha's almost luminous green eye's staring into my own she took a deep breath, and visibly tried to speak... Failed at it for a half a minute as she built up to something.

Then Pyrrha managed to 'bravely' speak with a core of tofu in her voice. "Jake, you are my best friend!"

Even the movie had a lull as the heroine in the movie was dramatically staring into a sunset... Which just made the room fucking akward with it's silence.

I could see in real time however as Pyrrha died on the inside with her closing her eye's and seemingly giving up on life at how she just fucking flubbed this.

"Well... That's too bad Pyrrha." I spoke taking a risk with her form stiffening at my words, then I gently cupped her cheeks and kissed her softly.

Her hands gripped my shirt's sides with how she was laying atop me and I let go of one of her cheeks with a hand making her whimper and push deeper into the kiss until I wrapped the hand around her waist to hug her and extend the kiss.

Finally, a couple of minutes later of making out I broke the kiss with Pyrrha's hazy green eye's looking at me in a daze before I continued. "Sorry, I don't just think of you as a friend Pyrrha... And I know you don't think of me in that way either." 

She flushed deeply and bit her lower lip, unable to say anything for a long minute with her refusing to make eye contact. Until she regathered her courage and pushed up to kiss me again.