Jaune sat at the cafeteria table across from team RWBY, beside his own team mates, with Pyrrha and Lie Ren to his left and right respectively. He was picking at his food nervously, having not eaten a bite.

"Jaune?"A calm but stern voice called his name.

"Oh, Pyrrha?" Jaune timidly replied.

"Are you feeling okay?"Asked a concerned Pyrrha.

"We went over this already, Pyrrha." Assured Jaune. "I'm really fine-

"Sorry to cut you off, Jaune," Ruby interjected. "But last time 'we went over this', you were Cardin's lackey. And that's not what I'd call fine."

Jaune sighed. "I'm just pretty stressed out over our mission tomorrow." Jaune confessed. "Apparently we're up against the toughest Grimm we will ever fight."

*RING RING

"ATTENTION TEAM RWBY AND TEAM JNPR, PLEASE MEET AT OZPIN'S QUARTERS"

*Beep.

"That's us!" Ruby immediately yells, directing her eyesight to her team.

"And us." Jaune replied in a semi-annoyed tone.

"What do you think they need us for?" Ren inquired.

"It could be that party Yang thought was a good idea to pull off." Pestered Weiss.

"Even if that was true," Yang said while nudging Weiss in return "It would only be me, the rest of team RWBY, Pyrrha and Nora.

"It may just be another task." Muttered Blake, minimally adding to the discussion.

"Ah, glad you could make it upon short notice." Greeted Ozpin as he notices the teams walk in through the door.

"Talk about short notice. You didn't even bother to repeat the announcement." Said Yang, with a slight hint of humor.

"Anyway, what could be so urgent that would lead you to overlooking something as trivial as that? Weiss added, ignoring the comical aspect provided by Yang.

"Ah, yes. You may have already figured out that this is no ordinary assignment." Ozpin confirmed their suspicions. "We're in quite a bit of a hurry. We have recently been informed of a few Grimm coming towards this academy."

"Just a few? I don't need two whole teams to pummel them into bits!" Boasted a prideful Nora sporting a gesture as though she had already won.

"Don't be too confident, we would only request the assistance of one team if it were the case in which these are ordinary Grimm. In this case, however, they're not."

"What, do they have special powers or something?" Yang attempted at a joke.

"The creatures of Grimm that you'll be facing are no other than the towering Macrosimien and the fanged Panthera Leo."

Pyrrha froze. As did Weiss with her mouth agape. These two being the only ones who know of the said creatures and the strength that they carry were the only ones who had done so.

'Wow, these things seem intimidating.' Jaune thought with a bead of sweat forming from his forehead. 'From Ozpin's description of them and now this, oh…Things aren't looking good.'

"C'mon, Jaune!" Ruby said comforting the said latter. "It shouldn't be too bad! I mean you have your team and mine in addition! Working together, we took out a Deathstalker, the strongest anyone in Beacon ever faced."

"Yeah but from my understanding, these new Grimm seem even more stronger, not to mention there's two of them." Jaune said, remaining upset.

"Jaune. Are you going to be a leader, or are you going to be a baby."

Jaune looked up at the sound of the voice, only to reveal a cross-armed Weiss.

"Because you're doing a great job at one of them right now."

Jaune groaned.

"Look, I know you're nervous, we all are. But in that battle against the Grimm, you need to be a leader."Weiss lectured.

"You seem to know a whole lot about being a leader, having not being one yourself." Jaune criticized.

"What?"Came a surprised Weiss.

"You can't tell me how to do my job."

"Yeah, I can since you're not doing it at all."

"What do you know about being a leader?"

"A lot more than you."

"Are you saying that I'm failing as a leader?"

"Well maybe I am!"

*SLAP!