A/N so it's my first fanfic, yay, moderately good at this stuff, doing gcse's soon so I won't be here a lot, sorry, P.S. as this is my first it's likely crappy. also in this FF Jaune isn't liked much by his teammates as they think he brings them down. (update:8/10/15 replaced some misspelled words and phrases, edited grammer, I need an editor, still don't know how that stuff works, no serious changes as of late)
Chapter: 1; Personal Responsibility
It was complete. Jaune had finally done it, he had spent countless hours, days even weeks trying to accomplish his goal, but finally he had done his work, what is this mysterious goal that had slaved Jaune for the last few weeks, depriving him of sunlight, and social interaction?, Homework. Professor Ozpin had been introducing a new way to kill off students inside beacon, luckily Homework was a temporary matter, either way, it still hurt to think to much, "THE GRIMM HAVE GENDERS?" Jaune practically shouted in his mind, Jaune just wanted to practice fighting, or watch people fight," apart from Cardin, I think training is okay,... and my team" he sighed at the thought of JNPR, his team had been slacking off without him. Sighing heavily to himself, Jaune got up from the desk. checking his scroll. It was now four in the morning, the first glimpse of sunlight started flickering and dancing through the gaps between the two curtains, Jaune slugged trogily towards his bed, Asleep before his head even hit the pillow.
"Jaune wake up", Jaune was brought back to consciousness by a soft tugging at his shoulder. Blinking once, then twice, He looked up into the emerald eyes of the beautiful goddess Pyrrha nikos. Jaune opened his mouth to tell her how he really felt... "Five more minutes" he managed to slur, "Jaune if you don't get up, I'll steal your duvet" the goddess purred into his ear. Unbelieving she would do such a thing Jaune turned around while groaning what sounded like a Mario song. A few seconds later he was greeted by the cold grasp of the winter morning. Click "nice undies Jaune, Didn't know you were one for ducks", He knew the sound of that camera. He got up screaming the Mario theme song.
As the hunters and huntresses started departing for their mission, Team JNPR were tasked with guarding an outpost that the white fang had set their ruthless sights on, there was blood-crazed fights going on at night, subsequently the team had the less safe option. "Come on team, Who doesn't like a bit of safeguarding?" Ren just rolled his eyes, Jaune got the same response from the rest of the team, the first few hours had gone really quiet, apart from a few visits from the eccentric team RWBY, which was more than entertaining. By nightfall the mission started going haywire, the first wave of the White Fang had showed up, Ren and Nora were gone in a flash, the shouts of the Queen of the castle and breaking of legs that followed could be heard from even the furthest reaches of Vale. Jaune and Pyrrha had a conversation in the meantime. "This is kinda boring huh?" Jaune absent-mindedly said shrugging his shoulders. The goddess let out a small chuckle "well ,I could think of something we could do" Jaune, happy to be doing something worthwhile was overjoyed, His gleaming eyes stared into the emerald of hers. "Really? Tell me!"
Minutes later they were placing bets on how many broken legs were happening per minute. "I place fifty liens on 20 per minute" Jaune stated confidently, placing a small wallet on the table they were sitting on. "that's a pretty low number Jaune, Nora had a lot of sugar today", "Ren will stop her from killing their members right?, so it's going to be lowered" Jaune took pride in being a good team leader. "Nora had sugar". "…...25", "Nora, sugar" A pause "30" The Goddess smirked "Nora" His confidence deflated rapidly "40..no 45", pyrrah smiled sweetly at him "20".
Jaune walked around the outpost, stopping in front of a vending machine, he had spotted this on the way in. Jaune's stomach groaned in protest after being cheated of his money, Sometimes, his best friend was his worst enemy. As he was walking through the rooms, he saw a flash of pink and brown in the hallway. Intrigued by his curiosity he followed the trail, in a room...far off from his comrades stood a short girl, around 4ft9, she had the weirdest hairstyle he had ever seen. Half of it was a deep brown, and the other pink with a few wafts of white, she also had one brown eye and one pink, her clothing was a white jacket with a pink trim, the top half of the jacket cut off into a tank top, supplied by black jeans and belt, with high white boots. "Hello, I-I don't think your supposed to be here" he nearly stuttered on the last few words. she turned around, eyeing him up and down and frowned. "excuse me?" he asked again nervously, she brought out a parasol he hadn't seen from behind her and pointed it at him. Jaune realized the danger too late, his shield did not come up in time, he took two blasts straight to the chest. Tumbling through wall after wall, he stood up, Dizzy and fazed, looking at his scroll he saw his aura was entering red soon. She came at him almost instantly, he quickly ducked under her kick, she spined around catching him with her other foot, bring her parasol down to his body, he barely managed to block it with his sword, he dodged another kick, and went in to strike, she backed away in mid air, surprisingly agile, Coming at him again, her kick struck its mark, he flew into a brick wall, coughing up blood and in a world of pain. "Ouch, your good, but you can't beat an Arc" Jaune said Proudley, tilting her head she looked at him confusion written on her face. Shrugging non-committedly "She can fight, she threw a few kicks, but that parasol is her weapon, need to get rid of that" Jaune ran at the lady, and tripped, bringing his sword down, enough to wound the lady, When the sword came to contact with her she shattered he stared at the blank space bewildered before feeling a sharp pain in his stomach as his world turned black.
-Neo's pov-
She had dealt with the boy, she would kill him later, she needed to get rid of the other three, he wasn't much of a challenge, he had tripped up, what kind of hunter would he be anyway? She laughed quietly, and walked down the hall she came from, maybe she'd kill the others, who knows?
-Jaune's pov-
It had been a month since the incident at the outpost, Jaune had woken up a week after the incident in beacon, he had fainted after the kick he'd received from... the lady?, Girl?, Child? He was ushered out the room by the nurse "Your friends need this room more than you do", he'd forgotten about his friends, what kind of leader was he?
His friends still haven't woken up yet, he hadn't been able to see them, he was always told such things as "Come Back soon" or "they'll be better in a few weeks", they made him more worried than pleased. he knew what had to be done, he had to get his revenge, teach that...lady girl? a lesson, oh, that and the homework, damn.
"Junie boy" Cardin half sang intending to inflict terror into the blonde knight's heart, which he successfully did so. Jaune on the other hand, wanted to keep his lunch, turning slowly towards cardin he replied quietly "Y-yo" waving his hand quickly.
"You gonna pay up?" he said triumphantly, Russel glaring Jaune into his tiny shell, "Your team isn't here to protect you this time" Cardin stated venomously, "There's only one thing you can do." Most of the other students in the cafeteria noticed Cardins victimizing of Jaune and look at the tall bully with disgust. The mention of his teammates plunged the submissive knight into another wave of depression, but Cardin was right there was only one thing he could do, turning hastefully on his heels, Jaune ran quickly in a frightened state. He had taken less than three steps when the heavy and painful blunt end of a mace took his legs out from under him in surprise, easy to tell by the perplexed look on his face. Cardin was walking slowly to Jaune murder in his eyes when the gauntlet of Yang's weapon came to contact to his throat, but was refrained from hitting it's mark. "ENOUGH" came the hostile shout of Glynda's warning, Saunting over to Jaune, Cardin and Yang She Glared at them irritation in her eyes, rubbing her temples she looked at them distastefully, "You three, my office NOW" they didn't need to be told twice.
-Neo's pov-
Neo sat in her room, gently swaying to the theme of her music, humming quietly to herself, she'd enjoyed her day out, well it was a bummer since Roman had ordered her to leave the team alive. But it was nothing a little ice cream couldn't fix, she enjoyed toying with the blue eyed 'knight', more accurately she'd mopped the floor with him, even so, the fun still lasted with the rest of the team, the woman with the big...melons and the man with the ponytail had proven easy enough. Even if Neo was slightly distracted by the swaying of Said melons. The biggest challenge had been the gladiator woman, who'd lasted a full minute against her, this infuriated Neo, Causing her to go against his orders and kill the woman rather gursomely, well she had tried. Still, she had her ice cream. wait, what flavour was it? she looked at the tub, and froze in place whose idea was it to make peanut ice cream, she'd find the man and kill him, right after she finishes hurling in the bathroom.
-Jaune's pov-
Jaune was ecstatic now that his team was out of the infirmary he'd encountered many dirty looks from Cardin but he knew the bully wouldn't dare approach him with his team around, he'd seeked forgiveness from his team straight away, for leading them into the death trap, he was in complete despair after what had happened to them, being at the brink of death like that had terrified the isolated knight, Wiess and Yangs attempts at cheering him up hadn't worked either. He was greeted with a horrible sight, Pyrrah connected by many wires and tubes to a life support machine, her aura wasn't very active either. The doctor, giving Jaune a look of pity, read from his clipboard: "Pyrrah has many broken ribs, a punctured liver, collapsed lung, dislocated arm, shattered leg, broken spine"… the list went on and on after being Ignored and abused by his team, who resented him for the comatose of Pyrrha, who hadn't woken up since the two months of the incident, Jaune didn't blame Nora and Ren, Nora had nearly died too, and Ren had a few broken bones, They would of killed him if he caused them to lose one another. "How dare you come and visit Her, You did this to Her, and you nearly did it to us too". Jaune had left feeling disgusted with himself at Nora's hateful words. he'd left Beacon to walk around Vale for a hour or two. This led to one of two things, one: realizing what a terrible leader he was, plunging him into a familiar state of sadness, depression, and two: Jaune being too preoccupied with his thoughts, bumped into a familiar ice cream enthusiast.
(Another A/N got some more spelling mistakes to take care of, sorry for the delay on Ch.2, finding it very hard on where to go with the story, speaking of stories, i can't decide on whether to place Neo in Beacon or get Jaune kicked out, so there's a poll on my account :D, thanks again, Chapter 2 out soon, dealing with writers block)