Chapter 91

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Pyrrha circled Penny quietly as the android girl focused on her powers. She had managed to stay airborne for several minutes now, a new record that was especially impressive considering how quickly she had worked herself up to using the new skill, but it was clear that the strain was building, and as the minutes wore on, her steady hover began to grow shaky and turn sporadically. She stayed up for a few more moments after that, but quickly crashed into the grass with an exhausted sigh.

"That was amazing, Penny!" Pyrrha walked over to rest and hand around the girl's shoulders. "At this rate, you'll have me beaten in no time."

"That is..." Penny stopped to take a deep breath. "Unlikely." She groaned softly as her face flushed. "I do not... like this feeling."

Pyrrha chuckled softly. "You'll get used to it, it's part of being Human."

"But I'm not Human." Penny replied in between deep breaths. She was still trying to learn how to cope with her new found feelings, which was at least one thing that Pyrrha had at least had an advantage over her in. She knew how to deal with exhaustion, how to not push or strain herself too much when the signs started to show themselves. Penny had no such experience, and was still trying to figure out just what to do to help. Breathing seemed to, even though she didn't require air in the same way people did.

"As far as Magic is concerned, you are." Pyrrha smiled, rubbing her hand in circles around the girl's back.

"Magic is... frustrating." Penny shook her head.

Pyrrha chuckled softly. "Come on, let's get you up and back to the dorm room."

"Coast is clear." Coco said from a few feet away. "Nobody ever even gets close to this part of the forest, I don't really see why we have to keep guarding it."

"Just because nobody ever has, does not mean that someday somebody will." Yatsuhashi replied, stepping over and offering Penny a hand to pull her up. Pyrrha would have done the same, but exhausted as Penny was right now, she actually needed the assistance in standing, and Yatsuhashi was the only one strong enough to actually help her do so. Though she didn't look it, Penny was actually quite heavy.

"I'm less concerned about people and more about the Grimm." Pyrrha explained as she reached down to the bottle of water she had brought out. Vale was quickly approaching the hottest part of its year, though she was thankfully used to far worse. The heat in Mistral was very similar, but the humidity had always been so much higher, one of the many things about her homeland that she didn't miss in the slightest. Still, staying hydrated was important, and the cool water was refreshing even if she hadn't truly exerted herself beyond the few simple demonstrations that she had shown Penny.

"I don't exactly think a Beowolf could sneak up on you guys." Velvet stated. "Let alone an Ursa, and those are the only Grimm that really patrol around the Emerald Forest."

"Have you ever seen a stealth Ursa?" Fox asked.

The rest of Team CFVY had long since learned to ignore Fox when he asked questions like that, and Pyrrha had quickly picked up on when he was trying to mess around as well, sadly, due to her own differences, Penny, however, hadn't yet grasped the habit. "I do not think there is such a thing, friend."

"Exactly! That's just how good they are at it. You don't even know they exist." Fox replied excitedly. "I mean, I've certainly never seen one."

Everyone except Penny groaned, the android girl simply looking confused.

"I thought that you were born-" Pyrrha nudged Penny before she could give Fox the attention he wanted.

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