Nightmares
"No! Please don't!" Pyrrha screamed as the mysterious woman in all black advanced toward her.
"No, please!" She screamed and sobbed at the same time while a flame sprung from the woman's hand.
"Don't do this! Please! I'm begging you!" She again screamed as she couldn't crawl anymore on the snowy forest floor. As the woman advanced more, she began to hurt. It wasn't any normal pain. This was a pain unlike anyother. It came from deep in her soul, like her very essence was being ripped to shreds. She also started shaking violently as a familiar voice called her name. It was very soothing, though it was covered in worry.
"Pyrrah!" It said once more, before all seemed to disappear.
She awoke with a start. It was extremely dark in the small room that currently belonged only to Juane and Pyrrha, as Ren and Nora were spending thier week off at their parents house, and sense neither Juane nor Pyrrha were exactly wanted in their respective house hold, their only option was to stay at beacon. She turned her head to see her fearless leader's face about an inch away form hers, his face tinged with worry.
"Pyrrha! What happened?" He asked obviously concerned at the normally quiet and composed woman's face, which was overrun with fear. She didn't respond, her eyes just looking into his like a scared little girl. When he realized she wasn't going to respond, he said; " move over."
"J-Juane?" She asked. "W-what are you d-doing?"
"I'm sleeping with you. It will help. Trust me." He told her in a soothing and calming voice.
"W-why?" Was all she managed to say.
"Because you mean a lot to me, and I won't let you stay hear, in the middle of the night, cowering in fear and wondering if it's safe to go to sleep because something will get you if you do." She was left speechless as he kissed her forehead.
"Juane? I-I love you." She blurted out. She really didn't expect him to say anything but a gentle letdown as he cupped her chin in His rough hands, saying they could only be friends, as she thought he was only doing this out of sympathy. The kiss was defiantly for reassurance, or so she thought. As she thought it was pretty obvious that he liked Ruby, as she was his first friend at beacon, possibly ever.
"I love you to, Pyrrha." And with that, he kissed her on the lips. It was soft and gentle, while still filled with passion. To say she was surprised would have won the biggest understatement of the year award. She was in shock, as her lips stayed frozen involuntarily resisted, but relaxed after a few moments. The kiss went on for about 20 seconds, as Juane moved his hands so that they were on her shoulders, while hers stayed in place on his chest. Much to both partners dismay, they had to break apart for air.
"Now let's get some rest, ok?" He asked, though it wasn't as much a question and more of a order. "I'm always here for you, you know that, right?"
"I do know, Juane. I do." She replied as she rested her head against his chest and promptly fell into peaceful sleep.
-the next morning-
Juane awoke to a face full of red hair at 5:30. He panicked slightly because he was in bed with Pyrrha, but he then remembered the events of last night. He hated seeing her like this as it had happened once before
×flashback×
It was 1:30 in the room belonging to team JNPR.
"No, no, no no no no!" Pyrrha murmured with increasing volume. Juane simply laid there in his bed, staring at the ceiling, wanting to do something but not knowing what to do about it.
×end of flashback×
He moved slightly, making Pyrrha aware he was awake, so she moved her face so it was next to his.
"Hello there, beautiful. What a lovely sight to wake up to." He said, after he turned his head so his face met hers. "Well, if you don't mind, I should probably go to my own bed." As he sat up to get off the bed he heard her beautiful voice say; "Juane, please stay here. If you wouldn't mind." That made him lay back down without a second thought.
"Thank you." She said.
"For what? He asked
"For everything. "She answered.
"I'm not just going to let the girl I love and who helped me become a better person sit there in the middle of the night losing sleep to some imaginary monsters she has made up. It happened before and won't happen again." He said. "I promise. I will be by your side forever. Now c'mon, let's get a little more sleep. I only got like one and a half hours earlier."
"But Juane, we had four hours to sleep. I'm not just going to let you get no sleep because of me. If you aren't getting any sleep, then I don't want you here with me." She said.
"To bad. I'm staying with you whether you like it or not." He said in a commanding voice. He then kissed her forehead and draped an arm around her. "Now let's go back to sleep."
They, or more accurately Juane, woke up three and a half hours latter
"Morning beautiful." Juane said as him stretched. She just mumbled something incoherent in response.
"Pyrrha, c'mon. It's nine o'clock. We should get breakfast before the food court closes." He tried reasoning with her.
"Just pick me something up." She said.
"What, do you think I have four arms or something? Besides. You're food will get cold." No answer except a grunt. "Pyrrha, I will drag you out of bed if I have to. I know you don't feel well but you can't skip breakfast."
"No." She replied more forcefully this time.
"Fine. You leave me no choice. I will just have to go get Yang."
"I'm up! I'm up!" She said as she got up extremely quickly. As they got dressed, there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." Juane said as he finished with his belt buckles. He opened the door to reveal Cardin and the rest of team CRDL.
"How's my favorite little knight doin? And Amazon the slut is here also?" He said as he saw Pyrrha without her shirt. "My my, this is perfect!" Cardin said with a smirk as he and the rest of the team shoved their way into the room. No one noticed Pyrrha discreetly messaging team RWBY to get up to their room.
"What do you want, Cardin?" Juane said with a sigh.
"Payback is what I want." He growled, his voice menacing as he drew an smooth ivory knife that looked to have a six inch blade. Pyrrha gasped at the sight of the weapon. Russell also drew a knife, but this was a military bayonet used for assault rifles. He swiftly and silently moved up behind Pyrrha, grabbed her by the hair and yanking her head back, and holding the knife to her throat.
"Let her go and I won't't hospitalize you." Juane said in a deep and Menacing voice. This only earned a laugh from the team.
"Payback time, you son of a bitch." With that, Cardin lunged at Juane and attempted to stab him. Juane sidestepped the knife pointed at his chest and grabbed Cardin's wrist with his right hand and back fisted Cardin in the face with his left and taking the knife from his hand all while kicking Cardin in the knee to dislocate it and sweeping him off his feet. This surprised Russell so Pyrrha stomped his foot and grabbed his hand to try and keep the knife from going into her neck. Just as Dove was about to move towards Juane, a hand grabbed his shoulder and spun him around to meet a grinning Ren, who slammed his palm into his temple knocking him out. Nora appeared beside Ren and smiled evily and threw her knee up into his crotch and pushed backwards into the wall in order to deliver a massive Haymaker to his face, putting him on the ground for good. Meanwhile, Pyrrha shoved off of Russell just as Juane got over to her. Russell then wasted no time in lunging at Pyrrha.
"No!" Juane cried out as he jumped in front of the knife, just as team RWBY arrived, and was rewarded with an unharmed Pyrrha but a stab wound in his shoulder. This made him fallback after Russell punched him off the knife. It also made everyone extremely mad, especially Ren, as Juane was his only real guy friend here at beacon, and he was Ren's wingman when he went to get Nora, plus being his team leader and saving his life a couple of times didn't hurt. He jumped right next to Russell, and using his aura, slammed a fist into him, sending him out the window and into the courtyard below. But Cardin wasn't done, as he picked up his knife and slashed the back of Pyrrha's leg extremely deeply, the stabbing her in the thigh twice then once in the back. This caused her to fall on top of Juane and making her unable to walk. This made Juane extremely mad, which caused his aura to go full, encasing his body in a glowing white light and a giant transparent image of a knight to seem to sprout from his feet, and faster than Ruby and Blake combined, he rolled Pyrrha off his and spring than his feet and deliver a massive punch that sent Cardin through several floors and straight into the Infirmary.
"Nice aim." Was the first thing spoken, courtesy of Yang after a moment of stunned silence.
"I will heal her. Weiss. Go get some medical dust. I know you have some. Ren. Get me something to bind the wounds with. Nora. Go tell Oz pin what happened. Blake. Come put pressure on the wound. Ruby and Yang. Get the bodies out of here." Juane said quicker than lightning. As everyone got up to do what it was they were supposed to do, Juane compacted some of his aura into a ball and set it inside her leg and moved it from the slash on her leg to the stab wound on her back. This exhausted him thoroughly, so when Ren and Weiss came back with the stuff he needed, he did the rest of what he had to, and collapsed in a heap.