Hello and welcome to my first RWBY Fanfiction. I've been wanting to write one for a long while now but I haven't been able to get any ideas flowing so for a while I just said "fuck it" and didn't bother but about a week ago I had an idea for a story and I just haven't been able to get it out of my head so I decided to write it down. I know there are going to be a few cliche happenings but hopefully ill be able to put a unique spin on them, so hopefully, you'll keep an open mind when one comes up.
The main pairing has already been decided as Lancaster.
Enjoy and leave a review to tell me what you think.
"Oh that sucked," came the moan of one Jaune Arc, who was hunched over a trash can he had finished emptying his stomach into "those motion sickness pills don't work for shit."
Standing back upright he turned to find the entrance of Beacon Academy looming in front of him. Steeling himself he started to follow the large crowd of people to, hopefully, where they were supposed to go.
'I can't believe I'm finally here' he thought. Though before he got too far into them he was startled out of them by an explosion. Looking around and seeing the top of a dust cloud he started for it if only out of curiosity, though seeing how no one reacted aside from stopping to stare a second and continuing along it couldn't have been much.
Coming up to where the explosion happened he saw a girl in a white dress storm away from a Gothic looking girl in a red cape. Seeing the girl in red start to wallow in self pity he would have just kept on his way before remembering something his mother used to say, 'friends are just strangers you haven't met yet' and seeing as how he had nothing to lose from going over and introducing himself, he decided to go say hi and see if she was alright.
Reaching her, he noticed her eyes were closed and, after positioning himself to where the sun wasn't in her eyes, coughed to get her attention. Seeing her eyes shoot open and focus on him he introduced himself.
"Hi there, my name is Jaune Arc, I saw that explosion earlier," seeing as how she froze a second while getting up he assumed that was a sore spot and quickly hurried on before he somehow managed to ruin a greeting "I just came over to see if you were ok."
Now that she was standing he noticed that she was quite short and seemingly younger than everyone else he had seen.
"My names Ruby, Ruby Rose. Nice to meet you. And the explosion wasn't my fault." she said, looking hesitant "kinda."
"Kinda?" asked Jaune, confused.
"She kept shaking that vial of dust in my face and it caused me to sneeze. My sneeze caused the explosion, so, yea kinda" said ruby with a nod of her head as if that made sense.
"Ok then. So-" easily falling into conversation with Ruby, they started to wander seeing as they each thought the other knew where they were going.
Eventually, they found their way to a small pond and fell into a small silence.
That was broken by Ruby saying "So I got this thing" followed by a loud slam.
"Is that a scythe" was the only reply Jaune could come up with after a few seconds of stunned silence.
"Yep, this is my baby, Crescent Rose. Made her myself," said Ruby with a proud smile as she lifted it and chambered a round.
"It's also a gun. What do you have?" she then asked looking inquisitively at the sword on Jaune's hip.
With a grin, he unsheathed his sword and extended out his shield.
"Ruby Rose, meet Crocea Mors. She belonged to one of my great ancestors and has been passed down in my family for generations. She's a classic."
His grin turned into a smile when she started to rapid fire questions.
About five minutes later when all her questions where answered he responded with one of his own.
"Hey Ruby"
"Yea Jaune"
"Where are we going?"
"I don't know, I was following you"
"But I was following you"
"Oh-"
"-shit"
After a mad sprint to the nearest directory and subsequently the auditorium they found they just missed the opening speech. Though before either of them could say anything Ruby spotted someone and disappeared in a trail of rose petals with a loud and angry sounding "YANG".
Following the trail of rose petals, he came across Ruby standing in front of a blonde girl, who he guessed was Yang, and was seemingly scolding her. Walking up to them he decided to mess around a little with Ruby.
"Wow ruby, I didn't think I was that bad." joked Jaune as he walked up to his new friend, hopefully, and Yang.
Before Ruby could say anything Yang turned to him and glared with angry red eyes.
"And who are you?" she asked with a slight threat hiding in her tone.
Ruby spoke up before he could, accusation and slight anger in her tone.
"His name is Jaune, he is the one that came to see if I was ok after I blew up in the courtyard. After you left me there." She spoke, putting emphasis on that last sentence before continuing. "Then we walked around the school talking about stuff before we realized the time and ran here."
Looking slightly shocked at Ruby for a second before turning back to him, this time with purple eyes. "Oh, well thank you for helping my sister after I, well, ran off." she chuckled out, nervously rubbing the back of her neck.
Idly wondering if he was going to interrupted again, he started speaking.
"It's ok. I saw her laying there in the small crater and thought 'yay, new friend'. " He shrugged out. "Well that and I couldn't just leave her there"
He was going to say more but he was interrupted, once more, by a familiar short white haired girl storming up to Ruby.
"You, you're the one that blew us up in the courtyard," she shouted.
He quickly blanked out what she was saying and started looking around at his school-mates for the next four years. What he saw didn't worry him, though it didn't exactly fill him with hope either. He only saw a few people he thought could be worth anything in a fight.
The first was a ginger girl. At first glance, she didn't look like much but once he looked closer he saw she had muscular arms and legs, implying she used a heavier weapon and liked to be mobile with it. He didn't pay much attention to what she wore cause he knew armor would slow her down and she had her aura to protect her. She also met his eyes when he was scanning her so he knew she had a good sixth sense that most hunters seemed to get when they unlocked their aura.
Next was the guy, maybe, she was hanging around hurriedly talking to, though he looked as calm as could be. He was harder to read as he was fully clothed, but Jaune could tell he was more of a quick-hitting, in-and-out kind of guy. He also made eye contact with Jaune and only turned back to his ginger friend when Jaune nodded to him. Though Jaune did note the bit of pink in his hair and wondered if it was natural.
After that pair was a lone girl, well, as lonely as one could be in a small crowd vying for her attention. It was hard to tell through the crowd that surrounded her but she seemed especially strong and that the armor was more for show than anything. He didn't mind it as long as she was a good fighter, though he didn't think he would see anything like that till team selections.
The last person he saw that he hadn't already analyzed was a girl sitting at the edge of the room reading. She seemed like the same kind of fighter as the boy with the pink in his hair from earlier. He also saw her indiscreetly look over the top of her book and meet his eyes. After she narrowed hers he nodded and looked away, though he felt her gaze for a linger a second after he did.
Hearing his name being called though he couldn't be sure who it was, he turned back to Ruby and Yang.
"You good, space cadet?" asked Yang after his attention was focused on them. "Weiss tried saying something to you but once she saw you weren't paying attention she insulted you and left"
"Yea, sorry. Just looking around," he replied with a quick shake of his head.
They started talking about random things and before they knew it, it was late and they were told to rest for tomorrow.
After coming out of the bathroom he used to change, Jaune felt the entirety of the auditoriums eyes on him, and he knew why. He was riddled with scars and they were all on display because he had on a pair of shorts and nothing else. He had scars everywhere, almost all of them caused by the grimm. A bite from a beowolf here, a claw from an ursa there. He ignored the stares he got from everyone till he got to where he had set his sleeping bag next to Ruby and Yang at the edge of the room, though the looks he was getting from them weren't any better. Sighing as he sat on his sleeping bag with his back to the rest of the room, though he knew they were staring at the scars there too.
"Geez, you'd think people training to huntsmen and huntresses would be more used to scars," He joked to the two in front of him. It was Ruby who responded.
"Well, that's probably because you have more scars than most veteran hunters. How did you even get that many?" she said, though the question was obviously unintentional because she blushed after she asked.
"How bout this, you each take turns pointing and ill explain where they came from." He said with a smile to let them know he was ok talking about them and gestured to Ruby that she could ask first.
"If you're ok with it, that one," she said, pointing to a bite mark on his side.
"Beowolf when I was asleep, must have thought I was dead or something." He explained before looking at Yang, waiting to see which she would choose. After a few minutes of them going back and forth, Ruby finally decided to ask a question that had been on her mind since she saw the scars.
"How did you even get into situations where these things happened?" She asked meekly on her turn. She immediately knew that she wasn't supposed
to ask when she saw his smile fall and tried to quickly take it back.
"you don't need-"
"It's fine, I know Yang is curious too," Yang blushed at being called out but decided to be honest and nodded.
"I was the only survivor of a bandit raid on my village when I was seven and these scars are the result of training myself to survive these last ten years."
When Jaune said that he heard the surrounding area get silent and he guessed they had the same faces the two in front of him. Shock, fear, and sorrow all passed their faces before he started speaking again.
"Before you ask, I was found by headmaster Ozpin about a month and a half ago when he went to check the old site of my village to see if it was re-hospitable. He found me and decided that if I could survive all that time on my own then what I learned would be wasted doing anything else. So if you two wouldn't mind, I hope neither of you would mind helping me with various studies outside of most anything grimm related." He finished with a smile. Before any of them could say anything else he started talking again, though it was more to himself than to anyone else.
"Maybe I should have paid more attention to professor Glynda when she tried explaining social stuff to me." He hummed. "Anyway, it's getting late so I'm going to lay down. You guys should too."
And before either of them could say anything he got in his sleeping bag and rolled on to his side away from them.
"Night" he called over his shoulder and shut out the world to try and sleep.
So that's the end of chapter one. Not sure how to feel about the ending. It was abrupt and all and I feel that it suits the character I have in mind that I want Jaune to be but it might be a little too abrupt. I don't know, let me know what you all think.
Enough of that. So my Jaune is clearly different than canon Jaune. much more experienced because of his tough past but as a result, it has made him much more socially weird. Though, as he said, he had some time with Ozpin and Glynda to try and teach him some stuff about proper social etiquette, though it clearly didn't work too good.
So all in all, let me know what you all think. Probably not gonna get many 'hey this is good' type responses but I expect that. Have a great rest of your day all who read this.