Ch 45: The Heaven After Hell

As the last light of day descended into dusk and the shattered moon took its dominant place in the sky, a group of wet, exhausted, but proud students marched back to the dorm. Teams RWBY, JNPR, and CFVY were trudging back to the dorms together, with Jaune being practically carried along between Pyrrha and Yatsuhashi. Ray had invited all of them back to his room for some post-workout treatment, and after listening to Ruby and Yang's fervent endorsement, they had all accepted. Ray had gone on ahead to make preparations, and the twelve of them were taking their time, one plodding step at a time.

"So, why did Ray ask us to come back to his room?" Coco asked after walking in silence for a while.

"To give us all our reward for surviving his hell training course. A deep tissue electrotherapy massage." Ruby answered with a loose smile on her face.

"Is it really that good?" Weiss asked. As an elite from Atlas, Weiss had had the privilege of experiencing some of the best spa treatments in Remnant and didn't hold very high expectations.

"Weiss, you will never be the same after this. He has shown us hell. Now he shall show us heaven." Yang answered the same loose smile on her face that was on Ruby's.

Once they arrived at the dormitory, the teams split up to go to their rooms to shower and change before meeting back up in front of Ray's room in their sleepwear. Pyrrha was wearing a loose dark yellow tank top over a black sports bra that was partly visible underneath and red yoga pants. Jaune had gotten a pair of grey sweatpants and a dark green "I ♥️ Beacon" tee-shirt to replace his rabbit onesie that Ray had confiscated. Velvet was wearing an oversized white button-down shirt that almost reached her knees and a pair of brown short sports shorts underneath that couldn't be seen under the shirt. Coco looked as stylish as always in her sleeveless dark brown nightgown with caramel-colored flowers budding and blooming on it and a black lace eye mask. Fox just had on a pair of copper-red gym shorts leaving his upper body bare, while Yatsuhashi was wearing a long dark-green yukata with lime-green piping that extended past his knees.

When Ruby opened Ray's door, without knocking, the sight they beheld within wasn't Ray's regular room. The giant quad-bed had been split into two standard beds. The bedframes for the other two beds were stacked on their sides in a corner of the room to take up as little space as possible while the mattresses, along with a large assortment of plush pillows, were spread across the ground so that almost no floor space was clear, except for between the two beds. The lights had been covered with thin pieces of blue and green cloth, dimming the room's lights and giving it a soft peaceful atmosphere. An atmosphere that was enhanced by the gentle sound of water running over rocks playing from Ray's scroll and the sandalwood incense candle that was burning in front of the window.

"Welcome." Ray's gentle voice drew their attention from the room to him. Unsurprisingly, Ruby and Yang were the first two to react. Before anyone else could even think of going first, they plopped face-first into the two beds.

*Chuckle* "You two sure seem eager." Ray chuckled as he rolled up his sleeves.

"Well, yeah!" Yang confirmed happily, "You know the only reason we let you get away with torturing us like that is so that we can get one of these."

"Well then, I will have to make sure that I do not disappoint." Ray said as he flexed his fingers and set his magic hands to work on his older sister's supple muscles.

"Deeper, Deeper," Yang begged as Ray leaned over her and used his weight to dig his elbow into the tense region between her shoulder blades.

Yang's moans and groans as Ray worked her over quickly left the guys speechless and the girls red.

[Aren't her reactions a little too… much, for just a message!] They all thought as they watched Ray move from between her shoulder blades to glide his hands down her back like a wave to apply first deep pressure with the heel of his hand to knead loose the knots, then broad pressure with the palm of his hands to soothe the agitated muscles, and then pinpoint pressure with his fingertips to release the last bits of tension deep inside.

By the time he was done with her, Yang had melted into a puddle of powerless contentment, too relaxed to move a single muscle. As Ray moved on to Ruby, Yang could only lay there, eyes half-open, feeling too good to fall asleep.

*Moan*

"Brother!"

"Raaaaaaayyyyy!" Ruby called out to Ray every time he hit a sweet spot and sent a tingle through her entire body

While he molded the outside of their bodies with his hands, his electricity was molding the inside of their body as well. Gentle streams of electricity flowed through their bodies like water over the parched earth, invading every crack and crevice. The electricity soothed and relaxed their bodies while at the same time encouraging the growth and healing of muscles and organs that had been pushed to their limits, ensuring that no sequelae would remain and that they would receive the maximum benefits from all their hard work.

"Alright, Yang, time to get up." Ray told Yang after he had finished with Ruby. Having regained some of her basic motor functions while Ray was working on Ruby, Yang was able to leverage herself up just enough to slide off the bed and find a clump of pillows to sprawl across instead.

After seeing how much Yang and Ruby had reacted to Ray's touch, the other girls were hesitant to offer up their bodies. In the end, it was Ren that ended up taking Yang's place on the bed.

"Ohhhh, Yesss, a little lower." Ren's cries soon made it evident that the magic in Ray's hands didn't distinguish between male and female.

"SOoooo GOOooooood" Nora was up next as Ruby rolled off her bed to fall to the ground like a limp noodle. Unfortunately, Ray wasn't able to send any electricity into Nora since it would only cause her muscles to tense up more as she absorbed it. So, the benefits she received weren't quite as good, but it was still a heavenly pleasurable experience for her.

"Jaune, have you ever properly stretched?" Ray asked as he felt all the tension and knots in Jaune's body after he took Ren's place.

"Of-of course. Didn't I stretch today with everyone else?" Jaune tried to avoid the question.

"Hmm, then I must warn you that this is going to hurt a bit. But don't worry, Pyrrha can teach you how to properly stretch so that this doesn't happen again." Ray shot Pyrrha a wink. Why she had fallen head over heels for this guy in the anime Ray had never understood, but it was clear to him from the looks she was always giving Jaune that she already had and as her friend Ray fully intended to support her quest to conquer Dense Mountain. [And if during the trek her affection shifts to the strong, caring, intelligent, handsome, understanding, and reliable partner who is always there to support and comfort her...]

"I don't need- OH OH OOOHHHH. Ok. Ok. I got it. OH." Jaune's protest was cut short as Ray dug his thumb into a tight knot in his waist and twisted sharply.

By the time Ray was done twisting, pulling, and kneading Jaune's muscles and joints back into their proper shape, Jaune looked like a broken man with drool leaking out of his half-open mouth and his eyes glazed with relief.

"Harder, harder! Please, harder!" As Ray increased the strength in his fingers as he kneaded Pyrrha's bicep, he wondered if she was enjoying the massage or watching Jaune's broken, slovenly face more.

Yatsuhashi stepped up to take Jaune's place next after seeing nobody wanted to lay where Jaune had just been drooling, even after Ray had mopped it up with a towel and laid a new pillow down.

*Groan* Ray had to get almost his entire weight behind his hands to get through Yatsu's dense layers of corded muscles.

"Hmmmmmm" Velvet felt like she was floating on a dream as she entrusted her body to Ray's skilled hands.

Ray frowned as he got to Velvet's legs. "Velvet." Ray's reprimanding voice roused the drifting bunny-eared Faunus back to semi-awareness.

"Yyeeessss?" She contentedly sighed.

"You wouldn't happen to have been slacking on your leg stretches due to the rabbit jokes that some people make? Would you?" Ray pointedly asked her.

When Velvet didn't respond and just buried her face into the pillow, Ray increased the strength he was putting into his thumbs as he dug into her thigh muscle, "Oh ho ho HO" Velvet couldn't help but cry out.

"Do you feel that?" Ray asked as he rolled his thumbs in a circle, prying into her thigh, "That is several years worth of lactic acid that had been trapped within your legs being released and your inner leg muscles finally relaxing after being clenched tight for so long.

"OOOOO HHHHHOOOOO" was all Velvet could get out as her back arched in reaction to what her legs were feeling.

"So, are we going to pay better attention to our stretches from now on?" Ray pressured her as he started dragging his thumbs down the back of Velvet's thighs, pulling her muscles straight.

"Mhm, Mhm," Velvet nodded her head in agreement as she bit her lower lip to keep from crying out again.

"Good girl, now just bear with it for a bit longer."

"MMMMMMMmmmmmm"

[I swear I will never skimp on my leg stretches again!] Velvet swore to herself with teary eyes as she endured Ray's stimulating massage that hugged the border between pleasure and pain as he worked the taut muscles in her legs loose.

"So, is my massage better than anything you have ever experienced before, Little Fairy?" Ray asked Weiss smugly as he ran one oiled-up hand up and down her silky arm and massaged her dainty digits with the other.

"Mhhmmmm. It's ok, I suppose." Weiss moaned. Her face, melting with pleasure, saying far more than just her words could for how good she felt.

"Puuuurrrrrrrrrrr"

"Your purring, Blake." Ray teased as he leaned over to whisper into her cat ears while he massaged the back of her neck. However, Blake was too relaxed to care, and her purring only deepened an octave as the warmth of his hands flowed through her. Leaving Ray with a profound desire to kiss the exposed nape of this adorable kitten but refrained since they weren't alone.

"Huu hanh huu hanh huu hanh huu hanh" The tensest spot on Fox, Ray was surprised to find, was the soles of his feet. It was also where Fox was most ticklish. Ray had to wrestle the older boy's legs down to get him to stay still long enough to work on them. Fox could stop his laughter by using deep, measured breaths to control his lungs but couldn't control his leg's instinctive kicking reflex.

"Right there, right there, that's the spot" Ray took extra care of Coco's shoulders and lower back. Even if she was strong enough to use Gianduja, her black leather handbag with golden studs that unfolded into a huge black and gold gatling gun, in battle without any problem, it still put a heavy strain on her shoulders and lower back.

Once Ray was done with all of them, the floor of his room was covered with half-conscious teenagers. Sprawled out across all the pillows he had laid out, knowing they should let Ray have his room back so they could all go to sleep, but too relaxed to go back to their rooms just yet. Having expected this, Ray didn't push any of them to leave and instead picked his way through the bodies littering his floor to turn off the light.

"Why don't you all just stay here for the night. Don't worry. I'll deal with Yang's snoring. She stays quiet as long as she has someone to use as a body pillow." Ray told them as he tiptoed his way over in the dark to where his sisters were laying.

A few sleepy murmurs of agreement and goodnights answered his proposal as everyone quickly drifted off to sleep. Over the coming weeks, as they got more used to the training course, they all still decided to stay in Ray's room, even though they were capable of moving after their treatments. These slumber parties between Ray, Team RWBY, Team JNPR, and Team CFVY, after having experienced being sent first to hell and then to heaven together, became a weekly tradition for the group that would forge an unbreakable bond of friendship between the 13 youths.