Phantom of Beacon
Chapter 1:
Hey guys, so I've had this idea spinning around for a few weeks now. Jaune is pretty much the everyman of RWBY, and I like the character, so this is another Jaune story!
"Out of the way!"
The floor swayed and creaked as he ran to the nearest trashcan, emptying his breakfast into it.
Why?! Every time I'm on a damn bullhead! When I fly the other way…
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A few hours earlier
"Oh Jaune, I can't believe you're leaving already! Now remember, you've got to keep your 'special gift' a secret! I can hardly imagine what the asshats in Atlas would do if they found out." Jen Arc said, pulling her brother into a hug.
Jaune rolled his eyes. "I know, I know. None of the ecto stuff, I've got it under control! I don't even transform by accident anymore!"
"Oh really? So what about the incident last week in the woods" She raised an eyebrow. "Or yesterday when your pants suddenly vanished downtown? Or this morning when yo-"
"Okay! So things aren't one hundred percent under control, but I'll be careful! Besides, what's the worst that could happen?" Jaune said nervously, scratching the back of his head.
Jen looked at him with concern. "Jaune. Atlas. Scientists. Bad. Focus." She reminded him. "There's some general up there who would probably have you captured, imprisoned, and experimented on in a lab, probably with needles and kniv-"
"Okay! I get it! I don't need the image of being cut up in my head! Look, I need to get running or I'll miss the bullhead. I'm gonna miss you though, sis." Jaune gave his sister a hug, earning one in response.
"Just be careful! And hey, maybe bring home a girl! Just don't do anything dad told you, it's a bunch of nonsense!"
Jaune rolled his eyes and ran towards the bullhead, sword strapped to his waist, gauntlets compacted on his wrists, blue eyes lightly flickering to green for a moment, before flickering back to blue.
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Present
Jaune finished emptying his stomach as the bullhead landed, prompting him to rush outside, nearly hugging the ground. "Oh sweet land! You were never meant to be ruined by machines flying in the skies!" He looked around at the other students, seeing a girl holding a giant scythe standing next to a blonde girl, the latter rushing off with unknown figures shortly after. "Well that was od-"
An explosion interrupted Jaune, as the scythe girl had an issue with some dust. A girl in white was screaming at scythe girl, before a girl in black shut white down. White stamped away, and black vanished out of nowhere.
Sighing, Jaune walked forwards, hearing a sad mumble of "Welcome to Beacon…" come from the scythe wielder. He stood over her, clearing his throat and saying "Hey, need a hand? I'm Jaune." He extended his arm towards her, smiling honestly.
She paused, before taking his hand and allowing him to pull her up. "Ruby. Hey, aren't you that guy who threw up on the ship?"
"Damn…"
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"Look, all I'm saying is that motion sickness is a very common problem!" Jaune exclaimed. Ruby giggled at him.
"I'm sorry! Vomit Boy was the first thing that came to mind!"
He rolled his eyes at her. "Oh yeah, well what if I called you Crater Face?"
Ruby looked at him in horror. "That wasn't my fault! Princess over there was shaking dust in my face!"
"Well the name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it!" He said, crossing his arms proudly.
Ruby raised an eyebrow at him. "Do they?"
"They will! I mean I…nevermind…" He cut himself off. "Nice job Jaune, almost say something stupid in front of the first cute girl you meet!"
Ruby paused, a confused look on her face as she kicked the ground awkwardly. "Sooo, I got this thing." She said as she grabbed the scythe from earlier, extending it to full size, towering over her.
Had he not seen it earlier, Jaune may have jumped back in surprise, but he instead just looked on in awe.
"It's also a customizable high impact sniper rifle." She stated proudly.
Jaune grinned in response. "That's awesome!" She smiled at him, suddenly looking him up and down.
"So what do you have?" Ruby asked, practically bouncing.
"Well, it depends! I've got up close and personal and loud and proud!" He grinned at her.
"Silent but…no! Loud and proud!" She exclaimed, actually bouncing now.
Jaune grinned before he activated a switch on his gauntlets, expanding them to their full form, covering his hands and forearms. Four barrels popped out of each gauntlet, glowing in shades of red, blue, yellow, and green. "I call them Spiritus Caestus! They use special dust rounds that my sister designed so that they could be concentrated into a beam form."
Ruby grabbed his arm, looking at the different barrels of the gauntlets. "These are amazing! So what about up close and personal? Your sword?"
"Oh not just the sword!" He tapped the gauntlets, compacting the cannons and enlarging the fists, adding claws out of the fingertips. "I've got these too. They're dust charged too, just not with the firing power of the cannons. As for the sword, it's a family heirloom, but it does the job!" Jaune swung the sword for effect as it shot out an arc of glowing green energy. Jaune's face paled as a bush was cut in half.
Ruby's eyes widened and her grin grew wider, as if that was still somehow possible. "What was that?! That was amazing! Jaune, you've got to show me how your sword did that!"
"Oh! Well uh…" Jaune stammered. "Think fast, idiot!" He grinned a liar's grin, sheathing the blade and scratching the back of his head. "Just a few modifications my sister made!"
Ruby was frozen in excitement as Jaune waved a hand in front of her face.
"Uhh, Ruby? Hello in there?" Jaune snapped his fingers a few times before she shook her head in response.
"Sorry! I'm a bit of a weapons dork, but those are amazing! Oh yeah, where are we going, by the way?" She asked as the two looked around the courtyard.
Jaune blinked at her. "Going? I was following you!"
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"Ruby, over here! I saved you a spot!" The blonde girl from earlier flagged Ruby down.
Ruby waved back in response. "Oh! Jaune! Come over with me! That's my sister, Yang!" Ruby grabbed Jaune by the forearm, pulling him towards Yang.
Yang eyed Jaune up and down before winking at him. "Why hello there, I don't believe we've met. Yang, Yang Xiao Long. What do I call you, loverboy? Or has my darling sister already snatched you up?"
Jaune and Ruby both blushed. "Yang! Stoooooop! This is Jaune! He found me after SOMEONE abandoned me and I exploded!" Ruby flailed her arms and Jaune and Yang just laughed. "I'm serious! I exploded, then this crabby girl started yelling at me about it and it totally wasn't my fault because I was just trying to explain mysel-"
"YOU!" A voice shouted from behind Ruby. She jumped in surprise, turning around and seeing White from earlier. "Do you even know how dangerous Dust can be? Or did they not teach you that? Maybe you're just too young to understand!" She practically screamed at Ruby.
"Look, maybe you two just got off on the wrong foot! Why not take it back a few steps, and try to be friends!" Yang offered, causing White to roll her eyes.
"Oh sure! Then maybe we can paint each other's nails, stay up late, and talk about cute boys like tall, blonde, and scraggly here." She pointed her thumb at Jaune, who blinked, then frowned.
"Easy there, Ice Queen. You know, maybe you should change your last name from Schnee to Schneez, if you're going to be flinging dust at innocent people and causing them to blow up." Jaune countered, crossing his arms at White/Weiss.
Yang and Ruby's mouths dropped before they bust out laughing. "That was great, Jaune! I think you and I are gonna get along just fine!" Yang exclaimed, wiping a tear from laughter.
Weiss grew red in the face as she stormed off, yelling something about blonde idiots. Jaune, Ruby, and Yang continued to laugh as a microphone was tapped.
"Welcome students to Beacon Academy. My name is Professor Ozpin…"
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The students were gathered in the dining hall, the tables having been moved out to allow for sleeping space. Jaune had changed out of his regular hoodie and jeans into a pair of black sweats and a wifebeater, and was now sitting off to one side, leaning on the wall. Ruby and Yang walked towards him, smiles plastered on their faces.
Jaune took a look at the girls, taking in their appearances. Ruby was in a pair of sleeping pants and a black tank, looking cute, in Jaune's opinion. Yang on the other hand left little to the imagination, with her long, white legs barely covered by her black shorts. Her top was orange and extremely low cut, showing off her womanly assets. Jaune blushed as he shook his head to avoid staring at her.
"Oh what's the matter, Jaune? See something you like?" She winked at him before laughing at his flustered form of a response. "Oh I'm just joking, loverboy. But hey, you don't look too bad yourself."
Jaune blushed further, causing Ruby to lightly punch Yang on the arm. "Yang, leave him alone! You meet anyone else while we were gone, Jaune? Anything exciting happen?" Ruby asked.
Jaune thought back to a few minutes ago when he was changing into his sleepwear.
Jaune slipped his gear off and threw his pants on, digging through his bag for his shirt. As he finally found it, it was snatched from his hands and thrown through an open door by a ginger haired boy, who smirked. "Oops." He said, laughing and walking off.
Jaune groaned and walked through the door, looking around for his shirt. It was nowhere to be found, and he groaned. "How could this get worse?" Almost as if Oum above was listening, Jaune's pants turned intangible and slipped right down to the ground before they turned back to normal, leaving him clad in only his boxers.
"Ah!"
"Oh my…"
"Perfect…"
Jaune turned to see the Weiss, the girl in black from earlier, and a redhead all staring at him in his state of undress. "Ah!" He pulled his now tangible pants back up, blushing madly at the three. "Ehheheh…you three ladies haven't seen a shirt get thrown in here, have you?" Jaune stammered.
The girl in black stepped forward, pulling the shirt from her yakuta. "It's Jaune, right? Here you are." She handed him the shirt before she walked off, swaying her hips as she did. "I'm Blake, by the way." She left the room, leaving a blushing Jaune staring at her.
"P-put your shirt on, you dunce!" Weiss yelled after a moment, a blush spread across her cheeks. "Come on, Pyrrha!" She pulled at her friend's arm. "Pyrrha! Hello!"
Pyrrha blinked before blushing further, her glance not straying from Jaune's muscular form. "Oh! Yes, we should be going! Jaune was it? This is the girls changing area, though you certainly look well bui-"
"PYRRHA!"
"I'm sorry! Coming Weiss! I'll hopefully see you around, Jaune." She blushed, then smiled, before walking off with Weiss, who was muttering something about indecencies.
Jaune blinked, blushed harder, then put his shirt back on.
"Nope, nothing out of the ordinary here!" Jaune said nervously. "What about you two?"
"Psh, just Ruby writing a letter to her friends back at Signal. Way too cute for words, I mean she was just, UGH-" Yang was hit in the face with a pillow by Ruby.
"Yang, stop it! I didn't get to bring all of my friends with me to Beacon like someone did!" Ruby groaned into her own pillow.
Yang rolled her eyes. "Well what about Jaune? That's plus one friend!" Jaune nodded in response, earning a smile from Ruby.
"Well yeah, but then Weiss already hates me! That's a negative friend!"
Jaune placed his hand on her shoulder. "Ruby, I don't think there's such thing as negative friends. That's just one friend and one enemy! Plus, with time, maybe Weiss will ease up a bit!" He nervously thought about the changing room incident. "If anything she probably hates me just as much as you, if that helps!"
Ruby looked at him, confused. "You? I mean I know you got a great burn on her earlier, but that doesn't earn hat-"
"Oh look! What about Blake?!" Jaune interrupted, not wanting to talk about his pants ghosting themselves. He pointed towards her, prompting Yang to drag Ruby over to the bow clad girl. Things were going well until Weiss went over and started yelling about her beauty sleep, catching eyes with Jaune, and blushing before she stormed off again. Jaune sighed, rolling over in his sleeping bag and drifting off.
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"Jaune! Vomit boy wake up!" Ruby yelled, causing Jaune to bolt awake. His eyes glowed green for a moment before he realized where he was. "You alright Jaune? Did your eyes just change colors?" She asked.
"What?! No! Must just be a uh…a trick of the light, yeah!" Jaune panicked.
Ruby raised an eyebrow. "Yeahhhh, well, come on! Get dressed! We only have a few minutes left to eat breakfast before initiation!" She pointed at Yang who was already dressed and ready.
Jaune jumped up and started changing as he ran, earning a wolf whistle from Yang, though that stopped when his pants flew off before his jeans flew on. Jaune dressed in less than a minute, rushing past the tables with food and grabbing a muffin before re-meeting up with a blushing Yang and Ruby a few minutes later, heading out to the cliffs with the girls.
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"Sir, how exactly are we going to be landi-AHHHHHHH" Jaune cried as he was launched into the air, before angling his body and glancing around him. "Well here goes everything!" Jaune closed his eyes, opening them as they turned green and a white ring went around his body. His hair turned white, his hoodie changed from black and orange to white and blue, and his jeans turned black. He glided down towards the forest, catching his breath as he landed. "I did it! I went full ghost! Plus no one saw me! Yeah!" He closed his eyes and pumped his fist in the air.
"Jaune?"
"Shit…"
SURPRISE! I'm actually writing two stories at once! So it looks like someone found out Jaune's little secret pretty fast! Poor Jaune, his luck is the worst! But hey, he has a partner now! As to who that will be, you'll have to stay tuned to find out! By all means send in a review of who you think it is! And just review in general! Also, check out my other in progress story 'Battle of the Bands'! It's another RWBY story, though it has no Grimm! Review, enjoy, and see you all in a few days!