Chapter 45

Once Upon A Time: Ice Cream And A Pair Of Gems - 1

Emerald was annoyed. It was for quite a simple reason really. Because of Mercury, that pain in the ass, wormed his way into Cinder's good books, and now, his job of asking around looking for information to any possible whereabouts the Maiden was being kept, had fallen into her lap.

..And as if things weren't bad enough, she got stuck with the damn mute. She looked out of the corner of her eye at Neo, in her form of Mint skipping along merrily beside her as if she had nothing to worry about.

She withheld a shiver. This little freak scared the shit out of her. Why she worked for Roman of all people was beyond her. But Neo was scary strong, and was easily capable of dealing with both her and Mercury at once. She had before when they first attacked Roman and strong armed him into the group. Only Cinder with her half of the maiden powers had been strong enough to face the little freak of nature.

So deep in her thoughts was she, the dusky haired girl didn't watch where she was going and grunted as she slammed into a solid wall of muscle. She fell back, and probably would have a nasty bump on her head if she didn't activate her aura..but, before she could hit the floor, a hand lashed out lightning quick and wrapped around her wrist.

She blinked her gem-like crimson red eyes and an instant later found herself hauled up to her feet in a split moment, and found herself pressing against a warm..shirtless body, her hand resting on a sweat soaked, rigid pec.

She looked up and found herself looking into a pair of mismatched red and green eyes, and a lock of blue tousled hair hanging down from shaggy black spikes over his forehead and hanging between them.

"You alright?" he asked, letting go of her wrist.

"..Yeah." Emerald nodded, a bit dazed. Her eyes landed over his shoulder and she saw Neo raising up on her tiptoes and raising a thumbs up at her and a sly wink. She withheld the urge to scowl at her blatant amusement. "Thanks." she said, and with her mental faculties back, she recognised him.

This was that kid, the apparent prodigy that got in a year early just like the hooded kid Ruby that Roman was always complaining about, Cobalt Stone. She'd seen him just the other day in class, he took on that one full team himself and won with ease? What was their name again? Something to do with birds, and lead by the big ginger guy in full armour with explosive mace thing

Well, whatever, he had made quick work of them and beat the shit out of them all with hand to hand combat. The kid might have been even better than Mercury, she did remember her teammate had been interested in him after seeing him fight.

"Good stuff then," the boy smirked, "I know I'm awesome and all, but having a gorgeous girl hurting herself because she fell for me wouldn't be good."

..Was he flirting with her?

She blinked at the sudden compliment, and felt her cheeks flush ever so slightly. He was quite good looking after all..and was shirtless. And she was..touching his chest.

The green haired girl yelped and pulled her hand back. "S-sorry!" she apologized she didn't even know why she was feeling so bashful all of a sudden.

"It's fi-" he began laughing and went to wave her off. But before he could, the little freak imp with her glided around his side almost too fast for Emerald to keep track of. Neo grabbed his wrist and swung it around her Emerald's waist and force him to take a large handful of her backside.

Cobalt blinked, and on reflex squeezed, his hand sinking into a vast expanse of bouncy round ass cheek.

"N-Mint!" Emerald corrected herself as she shouted in outrage, and then moaned reflexively when the boys hand squeezed her ass, his fingers sinking in deeply even through the tight white jeans she wore.

"Daaamn!" Cobalt groaned, and Emerald's eyes went incredibly wide with how pressed up again as she was against him, because of the thick, heavy thing pressing up into her stomach.

Neo popped up beside them, a massive grin on her face and holding a sign up that she had created with her illusion powers. 'Only fair he got to grope you after you groped him huh? Especially after he came to your rescue!' was the taunting message on it.

Emerald forced herself to ignore any embarrassment she felt, especially with that huge thing pressed up against her. She sighed and looked Cobalt in the eyes, "You can let go anytime you know." she told him drily.

"Kinda tempted to say that you'd need to pry my cold dead fingers off of an ass this amazing." he replied with a grin, and then gave her ass another squeeze.

Jeez this kid had a set of brass ones on him didn't he?

Emerald wasn't even really sure what to say to that. "I'm Cobalt," he continued on introducing himself seamlessly before she could think of anything to say, "Can I get the name of the dusky skinned beauty with the best ass I've ever seen?"

Emerald sighed, and gave up on regaining any real control of the situation, "It's Emerald," she replied, "Now, if you're wanting to grab my ass you should at least take me out to dinner first you know like a proper guy should." there might be something she could gain from this though. This kid was admitted early at the behest of Ozpin himself. He might be close to the headmaster in some way and have some rough idea of where the maiden was being kept. And letting a horny kid feel up her ass was a small price to pay to get the information Cinder needed.

Plus, it wasn't like he was bad looking at all. And she kinda of liked the rogue like attitude he had going for him. Similar to Mercury in a way, without sounding like a giant jackass. Plus, she couldn't say she wasn't at all interested in the massive thing prodding her front. The hell kind of heat was this kid, three years her junior packing?

'Hehehehehe!' Neo wove around to Cobalt's other side with another taunting sign. Her now green eyes through the use of her powers widened though, when Cobalt's right hand, the side she was on now, wound around Neo's small waist and sunk into her ass through her skirt and literally picked her up by her perky little round ass.

"It isn't nice to do that to your friend you know, so a little similar punishment is on the table for you sweet thing." Cobalt taunted her smugly.

Emerald felt her eyes going wide and a smirk spreading across her face at the look of blatant shock that appeared on Neo's face. She looked like she couldn't believe at all what just happened. It was the first time she'd ever seen such an expression on the little imps face.

She'd let him grab her ass for an hour straight just for that look alone on Neo's face. This kid was great!

And so began the story, of a brief, sexually tense friendship between three that would end in heartbreak, betrayal and lonely wandering.