Chapter 48

After about another half an hour, Ruby was glad to be able to sit down again. Her upper body and face were practically shining with how much sweat she had released.

But jeez, she hadn't expected that Cobalt's crystals would even tougher than she thought. Even now, after loading most of the bits she needed for melting down into the forge, they'd barely melted at all. They were incredibly resistant to not just physical force but heat as well.

As it was, it wasn't just some normal metal, so she couldn't be sure how upgrading would go with it. So, instead of jumping right into lining Crescent rose with it and possibly ruining her prized weapon baby, she'd pulled out a few moulds. The bullet casings she used for her ammunition and there were a few other simple blade moulds she'd picked up in town a few days ago just to play around with.

...She'd been wanting to upgrade Jaune's sword with some cool functions, but he hadn't really wanted to do anything with it. The dummy! If he let her put a small dust caster in, he could like, electrify his sword and stuff to deal way more damage.

But nope! Her blonde friend wanted to be plain old boring.

She fell into a chair beside the work bench Cobalt was currently atop with a sigh of relief. "Ah, that was a ton of hard work!" she complained, but there was a silly little smile on her face. After all, she was getting to work with a material probably nobody else in the world had.

"Here ya go Ruby." Cobalt said, and she turned to look at him to see him holding a very..very misshapen and lumpy crystal shaped almost in the form of a hammer. Well, at least the hammer's head bit was smoothed out properly.

"Ew, you really need to work on your craftsmanship," Ruby wrinkled her nose a bit as she took it, though she smiled in thanks regardless. She wasn't sure what she was going to use to hammer the crystal into shape later, but now this took care of her problems, "Weren't you pretty high ranked in our weapon smithing class?"

Cobalt snorted and wriggled one of his paws at her, "Don't exactly have proper hands right now do I? and I've not had much time to work on creating my crystals in specific shapes, I've been more focused on hunting down Grimm and getting stronger." He replied. Though, he had been looking her in the eyes at first, then they dipped towards her chest and stared at her sweaty cleavage.

"Well thanks anyway," she replied, before looking a him a bit. "Are these really that interesting?" Ruby set the hammer down and lifted her hands up to cup her boobs through her corset and jostled them. It made the shiny sweat clad mounds jiggle and ripple. They were just boobs right? She knew objectively guys liked them a lot for some reason, but she had no idea why.

"Pretty much yeah, and they look even sexier with them being all shiny and wet from your sweat." Cobalt shrugged and replied, taking his eyes off of her cleavage to look her in the eyes again.

Hmm. That was probably the first time someone had ever called anything about her sexy outright. Granted, it was Cobalt and he was very open about complimenting girls.

"Yeah, but why do you like boobs so much?" Ruby asked.

Cobalt opened his mouth and stopped. He kind of fell silent and floundered for a few moments before replying, "..I don't know? I mean, I loved the feel of them in my hands, how soft they were and watching them bounce and jiggle made me want to do so many things to them," he started rambling, "..But I kind of like them more on people I like? Like I want to do a lot different things to you and your boobs and then Nora and hers."

Ruby blinked. He sounded like he didn't even know what he was talking about anymore, like trying to come up with the meaning of life on the spot. It reminded her a bit of how she was trying to explain her passions for weapons to people and they just clearly didn't get it. She felt a big wide smile spread across her face and had to resist the urge to squeal about how cute he was. Seeing the normally blunt and crudely passionate Cobalt tongue tied as he tried to explain why he liked boobs, and why he liked hers specifically was just adorable!

Ruby reached up and scooped him onto her arms and hugged him to her breasts, "Alright Cobalt! When you get your human body back you can play with my boobs all you want!" she promised, Cobalt just chuckled into her cleavage.

They stayed like that for a few moments and Ruby's thoughts wandered. Everyone else always made such big things out of things like this. Besides Nora really. Yang and her dad and her uncle all tried explaining the concepts of dating, of boys wanting sex from girls at this age but just made it all sound so awkward and a waste of time. Quite frankly, she just didn't understand why it was so hard to them. Really, maybe she was just plain better than her dad and Yang when it came to the other sex? It would explain why Yang always flaunted her boobs and invited guys to try and touch them only to end up beating them up when they tried and blame the fault on them.

"So," Cobalt spoke up from where his head lay between her cleavage, and Ruby shivered a bit as his breath wafted over her breasts, "We've not really had the chance to really talk one on one all that much huh? How have you been since the fall?"

Ruby sighed at the question and slumped into the chair, absently beginning to pet his head, admiring his soft, yet somehow cool fur, "..I feel a lot better actually now," she admitted. Cobalt was always really truthful about anything asked of him, so she felt no need to hide things from him, "I did have nightmares for those first few months after seeing Cinder kill Pyrrha, but ever since we met up with you and you told us how you kinda brought her back I've been able to sleep easier."

..She'd probably have had nightmares about Tyrian Callows as well if it weren't for Cobalt. That man scared her, especially with the fact that he apparently worked for the big and bad evil queen of the grimm who wanted to kill them all. But Cobalt, even knowing they wanted him for something as well, and knowing that he couldn't win if it came down to it, had been ready to challenge Tyran to protect her. And now he was back, way bigger and way stronger than ever before.

Being around Cobalt was a lot like being around her dad and uncle in a sense. She felt comforted and safe when he was around, and that nothing could hurt her or those she cared about as long as he was around. It wasn't a feeling she wanted to ever rely on, because y'know Huntress! But, it was nice and reassuring regardless with how in over her head she felt these days.

Thinking of Tyrian though, made her remember what he said, "..I'm sorry by the way," Ruby continued, meekly, and continued when Cobalt merely raised a brow and looked at her with confused red and green eyes, "For zapping you with my eyes I mean, back at beacon. I almost killed you without even knowing." She'd been horrified by the thought ever since.

Cobalt just slumped his head deeper into her cleavage and she had to withhold a giggle as his fur tickled her, "Don't mind it," he replied casually, "Like I said to that idiot scorpion, I know you're not the type of girl who'd do something like that intentionally. It hurt like a bitch, but it worked out in the end."

The silver eyed girl released a soft breath at his words, a sense of ease filling her Thinking on it, maybe it wasn't just because she was far superior than her dad, sister and uncle when it came to the other sex. Maybe it was just because she felt so comfortable around Cobalt. After all, it wasn't like she felt any desire at all to let any other boy, even her closest male friend in Jaune see her naked or feel her boobs. Actually, it kind of made her feel icky.

'Could be both those I suppose. I mean, dad, Yang and Qrow are pretty dumb after all when it comes to this dating stuff.' Ruby nodded to herself. That made sense.